INDIAN BORDER RAIDS.
UNDER BURMESE LEADER. LOOTING AND MURDER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 31, 5.5 p.m. Delhi, March 30. Information from Rangoon regarding the raid of Chinese across the San border, show’s that brigands, numbering about 500, and Ihd by Prince Wunthu, a member of the former Burmese Royal House, attacked and burned on the 20th, houses belonging to an American, press representative, the Baptist missionary and Dr. Harper at Namkhan. After sacking the village of Muse and murdering the villagers, Wunthu, who escaped from Burma across the .’border in 1892, proclaimed himself King of Bhamo, and said he had come to annex Burma for the British. Dr. Harper sent information to the military police, whereof a detachment was sent to Namkhan to protect the missionaries. The rebels were engaged on the 23rd at Nampaw river, and dispersed after fierce fighting, wherein they lost eighty killed. Prince Wunthu was captured by the military police. He had three killed. Captain Anderson was wounded.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19220401.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
163INDIAN BORDER RAIDS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in