ASSAM MASSACRE.
A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. By TelcEraDb—Press Association—Conjrlebl Calcutta, July 27. An expedition numbering two thousand mon will leave early in October to punish tlio murderers of Mr. Williamson, a political officer, and Dr. GroßOiifon, who, with other members of (heir party, woo killed at Sadiyo, Assam, by tribesmen, early in April.
It appears that Mr. Williamson, llr. fii'cjrnii'nn, nml SO coolies worn aseiMulitist tho Dihonp; River unnrmoil on a friendly mission .when they were suddenly attacked, Two Nepalese coolies who escaped hroin:ht tho news nf the death of all the other members of tho party jo Dibrnirarh. The massacre on used intense exeitomont throughout Upner A warn. A yrar \uvviously a number of Mil Abnrs onto'vd tho Icrritory of the Miris aiid wttled on the Sibya-Muk frontier line. The Miris frequently comp'oined of tho turbulent behaviour of the. Alwrs, who insisted that the forests wove theirs and slopped wood-cut I in? in Velirnitrv la.sl, i[r. Williamson ordered the Aimrs luiclc to the hills, and the ntlook upon his party was probably tho result of this Mop,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1192, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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177ASSAM MASSACRE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1192, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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