VIOLENT CRIME IN BURMAH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2674, 31 August 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

VIOLENT CRIME IN BURMAH.

A rki'okt on violent crime in Burma! during Uie (irst quarter of tli<i urcsen' year, anil a resolution thereon of the Chic Commissioner, have been published riiese show a very considerable improve' i;> the. social eonditon of the country. Ii three districts—Arracan-hill tract, Tavoy and Monltiiein—tli-jre was no violeir crime; in Amhorst there was only on< robbery ; in Tharrawa.ldy there were 2f dacoities and robberies, against 114 ii the corresponding period of last year In this district four native dacoit leaden died during the quarter. In the Shwegyeen district one leader was killec and another arrested, and with them th< last of the outlaw dacoits in the district disappear. The totals from the whok country show 315 cases of violent crime against 525 in the corresponding period last year. Dacoities fell from 2:53 cases tc 130, and robberies from 19G to 111, and ol these latter there were twenty cases in which the property stolen did not amount in value to ten rupees. The number ol murders foil also from thirty to eleven. The Chief Commissioner says that few organised gangs of dacoits now exist, and tfi-it these include but few members. In reference to detection, Sir Chas. Crosthvvait remarks that there has been little improvement. He fears that the result of the confusion of lSß6and ISS7 when the province was tilled with armed bands ot laeoils, and when daeoities were sonunie--ous that the police were unable to devote special attention to each individual case —has not yet disappeared ; but, he says, he time has now come when ordinary loliee work should be resumed, and every ase carefully worked out and delected.