INDIAN UNREST.
AUSTRALIAN ANL N.Z. CABLR ASSOCIATION RAID IN BURMAH. DELHI, March 30. Information has been received from Rangoon regarding a raid of Chinese across the Shan border. The report | shows that brigands, numbering about | 500, were led by Prince Wunthu, a 1 member of the former Burmese Royal i House. They attacked and burned the | Twentieth House, belonging to an Am- ! erican Baptist missionary, Dr Harper, at Namkhan. After sacking the vil-lao-e of Muse, and murdering the villagers, Prince Wunthu, who escaped | from Burma, across the border, in 1892 j proclaimed himself King of Bh’amo, . i and said he had come to annex Burma i from the British. Dr Harper sent, in- , I forming the military police, whereof a j j detachment was sent to Namkhan to j : protect the missionai ies The rebels i t were engaged by them on March 23rd, / : at Nampaw River, and were dispersed S after fierce fighting, wherein they lost , so killed. Prince Wunthu was capi tured. The military police had three } killed), and Captain Anderson was wounded. ! mhiiim iiiiiwiwiii— ~n
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1922, Page 3
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