The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-09-15 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 1888.  ENGLAND'S war with Thibet may become a source of great trouble in the East. Sikkim is a small mountainous province under the protectorate of the Indian Government, lying between Bengal and Thibet. Its people are largely of Mongolian race, and therefore akin to those of Thibet, and its prince is mairied to a Thibetan woman and has lived in Thibet of late years. Ihring the Pl:nee's absence the country has been governed by a native ruler supported by the Indian Government. Against this ruler a strong Thibetan faction intrigued, and were abetted by the Llamas of Thibet. In 1886, Great Britain sent an expedition to Thibet, but owing to the resistance offered by the Thibetans to its entering the country, and to the appeals of the Chinese Government, which is Suzerain of Thibet, the expci;Oon was recalled. The recall of the expedition encouraged the belief in Thibet that the English were afraid of the Thibetans, and accordingly they attempted to take poesession of the province of Sikkim. Early last year they crossed into the province, took possession of the Takula Pass and built a fort at Singtee. From this they were dislodged by the Sikkim expedition in May of this year, and ever since the British have been holding the passes. The Thibetans have not given up their project, however, but have:gathered a force of fifteen thousand men, with which they hope to dtive the British back. The danger of a war with a Mongolian race is that they wage it with overwhelming numbers, are very persistent, and are utterly regardless of the worth of human life. It is questionable whether any great power can afford to stand on the defensive. Russia tried to do so in Kuldjah and was forced to withel-aw and surrender the province. Great Britain will probably be compelled to march to the capital of Thibet and at the same time bring pressure to bear at Pekin. Llassa, the capital of Thibet, is, fortunately, not far distant from the fortress of Sikkim.  ANOTHER murder has taken place in the East End of London, and no surprise can be felt that the residents in this disreputable quarter of the great city are in a state of alarm and terror. The recent outrages cast a sad light upon the possibilities of life in this district. The latest crime, which has horrified the whole country, exceeds in brutality and fiendishness even the diabolical murder of only a fortnight ago in the same neighbourhood. The details of the tragedy of Saturday last are horrible reading, and would be incredible but for the fact that we know they are only too true. The secrecy with which the deed was committed, in a populous part of the East End, and the atrocious mutilation of the body of the poor woman, would point to the belief that this outrage and the three which preceded it are the work of the same person or persons. The four murders have occurred within a short distance of each other, and the victims in each ease have , been women of the poorest and most unfortunate class. The poor victim of Saturday morning last would appear to have at one time been in respectable circutnstances ;_but poverty led her step by step to the sad life which has had such a sorrowful ending. The bold brutality of this Whitechapel murder exceeds all flee others in its horrors. The house is one in which six families reside, and there is a backyard, used partly as a workshop, whilst the passage from the front to the back is almost as easy of access as a street. This was the locality selected by the murderer. None of the inmates were disturbed by any outcry during the night or in the early morning hours, when the deed was done, although the murderer must have passed through the house into the yard, and possibly have returned by the same way; but as one of the inmates was leaving his house for work early in the morning he saw in the yard  the lifeless body of a woman, mutilated in sickening and revolting manner. Tbt murder seems more like the work of a madman than of a responsible person, however depraved. No wonder the Ea. End is in a state of panic, and that till failure of the police to detect the perpetrator or perpetrators of the crimes that hot preceded this last atrocity is severely criticised.