The Lushia Outbreak.

Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1892, Page 2

The Lushia Outbreak.

-■ -■■■ ; '-—I ♦ Tiie lising'bf the Mountain tribe of Lushia is an event which has to be provided against, being a portion of the education necessary to teach a savage tribe the discipline arising from a higher stage of civilization. The Burmese have had an expensive experience of the danger of meddling with our Indian territory, and Assam, the scene of the outbreak, was ceded by Burinah in 1825, and annexed to Bengal in 1874. Not only was Assam secured from Burmah in 1825,' but in the following year the provinces of that oountry, Tena^serim and Arahan were annexed. .In-'-. 1852 Pegu, another province was taken, and in 1885 Upper Burmah and the Shan states were taken*.' ■ The Assam province' is divided by the Brahmaputra river, and. a range of mountains divide it into two valleys, the Surma, and Brahmaputra. Up the course of the Brahmaputra . river lie • Sylhet, Lahhimpur and Sibsagar which are the most important tea-producing districts in India. The ''districts adjacent to Sylhet are the Mountains occupied by the Eushiag, and the country between Sylhefc and Sibsagar are bounded by the Native State of Manipur, subordinate . however to Assam, in which the disaster occurred to thejX)Kief Commissioner last year. It is evident that with a fertile countryf' Occupied by industrious inhabitants and surrounded by lawless and half civilized tribes, the Indian government will have many little expeditiofisHo "keep going both on its Assam and Burma boundaries.