RAIDERS IN BURMA.
BANDIT KING CAPTURED. 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 £OO, and led by Prince Wun-Thu, a member of the former Burmese Royal house, who escaped across the Burmese border in 189U, attacked and burned on March 20th a house belonging to Dr. Harper, an American Baptist missionary, at Nam-Khan. After sacking the village of Jluse and murdering the villagers, Wun-Thu proclaimed himself King of Bhamo (Burma), and. declared that he had come to annex Burma from the British. Dr. Harper gave information to the militarv police, a detachment of •which was sent to Nam-Khan to protect the missionaries. The police engaged the rebels on March 23rd on the river, and dispersed them after fierce fighting, in wnich they lost 80 killed. Wun-Th'u was captured. Three members of the militarv police were killed and Captain Anderson was wounded.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17431, 17 April 1922, Page 9
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