The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-06-14 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BAD NEWS FROM BURMA.II.  The Times correspondent at Rangoon sends further news respecting affairs in Burinah. Captain Raikes has sent an ultimatum to the chiefs of the Tashow tribe of Chins requiring them to give up within one month the following persons: The Shwaygyobin Prince and his followers, the ex-Teawbwa of Kale, and the leaders of the Chins who recently raided upon villages in British territory. He announced that if this demand were not complied with a tone • tive expedition would be sent into the Ta.show country with orders to p h the tribes with the utmost severity. It is anticipated that the chief will not comply with the demand, and that an expedition on a large scale will have to march in the next aeason of cold weather into the Chin hills. During the present hot weather the troops will not be kept in the Knbo Valley. Indin, the residence of the Kale Taawbwa, and Kidemyo will be stronely held by the military police. The Shwaygyobin Prince and other refugees, if given up, ' will be made over to the civil officer at Indin for trial. The last official bulletin for Upper Burtnah is somewhat more favaurable than those published for some time past have been. The usual series of petty skirmishes with dacoits is reported. The most serious feature is that in the Tsagain district a number of persons who were sup. posed to have given information to the police were murdered by dacoits. The Tavoy district continues in a very disturbed condition. The dacoita have escaped pursuit and retreated to the hills, and fresh raids are expected. The Rangoon ttr and the Rammon Times publish some remarkable details relating to the state of the Tavoy district, which explain how the deceits have obtained their apparently inexhaustible supplies :if arms and an mtion, and prove the extraordinary neglect of the most ordinary precautions on the part of the local authorities. From its misition near the Siamese frontier Tavoy was the district into which it was most likely that arms and ammunition would be smuggled. Nevertheless, for seven years, . including the whole period of the recent disturbances in Bermah, the gales book of the licensed vendor :if arms and ammunition in Tavoy was not examined. By law it should have been inspected ;ince every month. An momenta quantity of arms and ammunition was known to have been smuggled through Tavoy into Upper Burundi. Arum were almost openly sold in Tavoy. Tift• native police officers there kept gambling-houses with scarcely a pretence of concealment. They aniuggled themselves extensively, and were allied with the bad characters of the district. The Rangoon Cla:tiffe reports a very serious outrage committed by police in Lower Burundi. The facts of the case are officially stated. A sergeant and I policemen are in custody on a charge of dacoiting the village of Tnnbin, in the Tharrawaddy district. They belonged to a punitive police force quartered in the district, for which force the inhabitants had to pay a siweial tax. A body of armed dacoits wearing police uniform • attacked the village of Tunbin, burned six houses. . killed a villager, and with their dabs chopped off the hands of an old w 1111 l an to compel her to givmnp money. The dacoits then left the village, carrying off several girls with them. The villagers pursued them, and were tired on by the Two of the wounded villagers identified as meniliera of the gang a sergeant and several policemen quartered at the neighbouring village of Kyonktwin. klireenistantial evidence also atrungly indicated the guilt of the police.