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Updated: May 17, 2025
He was specially attached to the native levy and, soon acquiring their words of command, assisted its officers in drilling it into something like order. Early in May a Burmese division, 8000 strong, crossed the Naaf and established itself at Rutnapullung, fourteen miles south of Ramoo.
Had any energy, whatever, been shown by the officer in command of Chittagong, in sending up reinforcements which he could well have spared, now that the point of attack by the Burmese had been made clear Captain Noton might have taken the offensive, in which case serious disaster would have been avoided, and the Burmese would have been driven back across the Naaf.
In the evening food was brought to the prisoners and, talking with some of the Burmese who came up to look at them, Stanley learned that Bandoola himself had not accompanied the force across the Naaf, and that it was commanded by the rajahs who ruled the four provinces of Aracan. Upon the following morning the prisoners were marched away, under a strong guard.
"The fat is all in the fire, Stanley," Tom Pearson said, when he returned. "The Burmese have attacked and killed some of our troops, and it is certain that the government cannot put up with that." "Where was it, uncle?" "Down at the mouth of the Naaf. As you know, that is the southern boundary of the province, and there was a row there in January.
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