BANDIT KING.
RAID ON BURMESE BORDER. VTXXAGE SACKED. CALCUTTA, April 1. Information regarding the raid by Chinese brigands across the Shan border shows, according to a message from Rangoon, that brigands numbering about 500, and led by Prince Wun-Thu, a member of the former Burmese Royal House, attacked and burned on March 20 a house. belonging to Dr. Harper, an American Baptist missionary, at NamKhan. After sacking the village of Muse and murdering the villagers, Wun-Thu, who escaped from Burma across the border in 1892, proclaimed himself King ofj Bhamo (Burma), and declared that he had come to annex Burma from the British. Dr. Harper gave information to the military police, a detachment of which j was sent to Nam-Khan to protect the' missionaries. The police engaged the rebels on March 23 on the Nam-Paw j River, and dispersed them after fierce; fighting, in which they lost 80 killed. Wun-Thu was captured. Three members of the military police were killed, j and Captain Anderson was wounded, j
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1922, Page 5
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