At present there are 27,000 troops in the southern parts of this province, and iti posed to retain 15,000, marder that all th tant posts throughout the- reclaimed districts may be efficiently garrisoned; for the country is so mountainous and so covered with dense forests that it is quite ible that rebels may atill be. lurking ere and there. The taking of the prefect tural city of Haing-i in the southwest has already been reported to the Throne (see Gazette of April 12th). One Mahometan stronghold only remains, and that is so rounded by the troops that its surrender may be looked for any day. When that takes place 19,000 of the army operating in that direction will also be disbanded.
Death of the rebel leaders Kaoho, Ow Pao-hsiang and Ah-ma.
These rebels were sent to the provincial capital according to instructions. They were all leading rebels and guilty of an enormous crime; but Kaoho was considered the chief, a sort of King. It was he who fomented the rebellion at first, and on him Ties the guilt of this eighteen-years' war, with all its attendant horrors. Decapitation therefore seemed too light a punishment for this arch-rebel, and it was the duty of the memorialist to have him imprisoned and leave the Throne to fix his doom. But reference to the capital necessary involved such a long delay, that there was danger of his escaping justice by committing suicide. Knowing how deep his guilt was and what his fate would probably be, he had already. refused to eat, in order to starve himself. The memorialist. therefore ordered that he and Ah-ma should be hacked to pieces, and Ow Pao-hsiang decapitated. The corpse of Kaho was afterwards cut up into bits, as a special punishment, and the heads of all three were sent round the country, that they might serve as a warning to others. They were greeted. with universal rejoicing.
The memorial concludes by recommending to the notice of the Throne the officers who conducted the operations of the war.
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