A Stldier Spy

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 101, 4 February 1886, Page 2

A Stldier Spy

Amongst the wounded m the Burmese war we find tho name of Major MaoNeill, whose services" must- he of . great importance just now on the naff of General Frendergast. His fo*yer visit to Mandalay was under sh{£htlj different ciroumstancee. > Wheal lit Simla some few years ago aa. one of the staff of the intoihgenoe brancA hhv special department was Burmkh. i At that time — as, indeed, we have been more or less for the last 10 years-j-we were expecting a row with TheeUu, and Major MacNeill, who, by the fay, is an excellent photographer, decided to go to the heart of the oountr^for his data, the accounts received b_ing widely divergent. Accoidingly, ai the Burmese officials werefarfromf-iendly, he passed the frontier, and appeared at Mandalay as "Mr MaoNeill ; photographer." He was viewed with soma suspicion, but eventually: secure-, * small shanty on the outskirts of the capital, in which he was jealously allowed to carry on Iris adopted profession. During the day he photographed ambitiuous Burmese belles for a small sum, and he preserves: as ,& memento a very fine colleotion, the women being decidedly well favored, and their costume very quaiut, though not quite likely to meet the views of one ef our bishops. In the early morning what more natural, in such n climate, than that he should take a constitutional, and in that way, by the ' aid of a prismatic compass, and by what Sandhurst cadets call shooting n few angles, he, in a few months, mads a complete plan of the defences of th& town. — Truth. \ - .;