The Trouble in Burmah.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 16 April 1891, Page 2

The Trouble in Burmah.

1 ▼ — Revolting details have come to hand of the fate of persons captured by the Munipuris. Commissioner Quinton, two officers and a bugler were hacked to pieces and mutilated, and the bodies thrown outside the walls of Tamil and devoured by dogs. Mr Grimwood and two other officers were shot and their bodies similarly treated. Lieut. Grant's ammunition was almost exhausted when he was relieved. The detachments under Lieutenants Grant and Presgrave have retired. The fate of the chief Senaparti, who provoked the revolt, and who was reported to have been killed during the engagement with Lieutenant Grant's detatchment at Thonal, is uncertain. Three relief columns are rapidly massing at Kohina, Silchar, and Tamu. Lieutenant tioileau, wing officer of ■the 2nd battalion of Ghoorkas, who escaped from Munipur, denies the statement of the usurper Jabraj, that women had been burned to death by Ghoorkas. Ten thousand Anglo-Indian troops are massed at Kohat, on the Afghan frontier, Lieutenant Grant had nine days heavy fighting before he was relieved.