The rebellion in the Hunlim district is at present a slumbering fire; the material for a big fire is still there and ready at any moment to burst out. In my. former letter of the 14th of July I stated that thirty odd villages had been burned. It is now quite certain that my estimate was below the mark. 'There were fully seventy villages destroyed and the number of killed fully one thousand. The robbers' who were not killed have escaped to mountain villages east from Towlak. At present the original inhabitants of these villages along with the large influx of robbers' from the Towlak region are having all things in common." They all know as well as I do that they ave no hope against the trained Japanese soldiers, but they in effect have said to one another, We shall be killed in a-y case, we mayas well die fighting." Ina village called Phawthengéboe (GS ¢F CE) there are at present large numbers of refugees where villages had been burned. This place is very difficult of access. At the first approach of the Japanese several of the villagers came down to receive them in peace, but were immediately killed. 'Thus the rest of these at once became hostile. 'The Japanese repeatedly attempted to drive them out, but as yet without success and have lost' a good few men in the attempts.
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