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SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received March 30.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of Viscount Morley, forwards berewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of a telegram from the Viceroy, dated the 28th March, relative to a raid by Kachins in the Northern Shan States.
India Office, March 30, 1911.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of India to Viscount Morley.
(Telegraphic.) P.
PLEASE refer to my telegram dated the 19th instant. telegraphed the 25th instant to following effect :----
March 28, 1911. Burmah Government
"Raid was committed, according to further reports, by some 200 to 300 Sinwa Kachins who came from Mongko and Powang circle on our side of frontier, and from Mong Pan, Chefang and Lung Chuan on the Chinese side. Two villages in Powang circle were attacked and burnt by them, the cattle were taken off to Chefang, and two Kachins were killed and five or six others wounded. Raiders fled to Pangwai and Mong Pan, on being driven out of Pawnseng village, where they had stockaded themselves, by assistant commandant and assistant superintendent, Kutkai, on the 18th instant. Six sepoys were injured by bamboo stakes in the ground, one sepoy was injured by shot, and one Kachin with our party was killed during the attack. The stockading of three other villages on our side is reported. Assistant superintendent has been met at Pwangseng by the frontier deputy, Chao, the latter having gone to the frontier to settle disputes regarding cultivation, which the Bhamu frontier meeting had left unsettled. Assistant superintendent was informed by Chao that latter would see that frontier was not crossed by any Kachins from China, and, at Chao's request, attack on three stockaded villages has been postponed by assistant superintendent, The latter states that the Sawbwas of Mong Pan and Chefang and the Ting of Lungling were expected at Pawngseng to meet him. He proposes to make a claim on China for the surrender of the Pawngseng Kachins, now in Chefang, Lungling and Mong Pan, who were concerned in raid; for blood money for three Kachins killed and for compensation for six men wounded, and for property destroyed and carried off. Further recommendations of superintendent, Northern Shan States, who is absent from head-quarters on tour, as to action to be taken, are awaited by Lieutenant-Governor.”
(Repeated to Peking.)
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