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Show GRIM VISAGED WAR! Shows His Wrinkled Front in the Land of King Thebaw I The British Troops Ordered to Captnre Mandalay Forthwith. Fifteen Thoosand Thugs and Thieves Snbsidiied to Fight the Invaders. - Barman to be Invaded at Once. Calcutta, November 13. Lord Dttfferin, Viceroy of India, has ordered General Pen-dergast, Pen-dergast, commander of - the expeditionary force, to invade forthwith and proceed with all haste to capture Mandalay. The British Brit-ish forces will now cross the frontier immediately. im-mediately. Recent dispatches from Kan-goon Kan-goon state that the inhabitants of the dis-trictaof dis-trictaof Burmah where no large garrisons are maintained, are greatly alarmed over the reports that King Thebaw ha subsidized subsi-dized 15,000 Dacotaa to cross the frontier and begin plundering and murdering at the first note of war. The Dacotas are robbers who work in large gangs and are noted for their bold exploits. Having neither baggage nor commissariat, these bands travel with marvelous speed, and it will be hard for the British troops to catch them. |