4758 THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1887. Hla-Oo, after the dispersal of his' gang and his be recognized in such a manner as may seem own flight to a place of concealment, has been proper to Her Majesty. killed by one of his few remaining adherents. 12. In connection with the operations in Upper Boh Shwe and Ottama have been repeatedly Burma, the Commander-in-Chief in India desires defeated, their camps captured, their followers to bring to favourable notice the services of the scattered, and their influence.broken. The dacoit following officers :—Major-General Sir T. D. leaders infesting Yemethen, Ningyan, and the Baker, E'.C.B., late Adjutant-General in India; Kanle and Pakangyi tracts have been effectually Colonel H. Collett, C.B., late Officiating Quarter- dealt with. The Bhamo district has enjoyed master-General in India ; Major W. G. Nicholson, complete quietude since the solitary.outbreak in Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers ; November last. The Ruby Mines tract has been Major H. T. Lugard^ Brigade Major, Royal successfully occupied, and is now being connected Artillery ; Captain W. B. Wilson, Deputy-Assis- with the river and Mandalay by means of a good tant Adjutant-General; Captain C. H. H.Beley, military road. The exploration and pacification Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General. And of the Chindwin and Kubo valleys have been his Excellency's personal staff:—Lieutenant- thoroughly accomplished. The isolated bands of Colonel R. Pole-Carew, Military Secretary; rebels in the neighbourhood of Katha, Shemaga, Major I. S. M. Hamilton, Persian Interpreter; Mandalay, Kyaukse, "Welaung, Popa, Seh, and Surgeon-Major W. Taylor, Medical Staff; Lieu- Wundwin have been brought into complete sub- tenant C. V. Hume, Royal Artillery, Lieutenant jection. W. Maxwell Sherston, Rifle Brigade, Lieutenant The Tsawbwa of Wuntho has acknowledged Henry Rawlinson, King's Royal Rifle Corps, the British supremacy, and accepted the terms he Captain the Honourable F. E. Allsopp, Royal had previously rejected. The expedition into the Artillery, Aides-de-Camp. All of whom accom- Eastern Shan States has met with trifling opposi- panied Sir Frederick Roberts to Burma with the tion, and has succeeded in establishing the friendly Head-Quarters of the Army in India. relations it was its object to cultivate. A similar Major-General (then Brigadier-General) W. K. result has been achieved by the expedition into Elles, C.B., A.D.C., late Adjutant-General of the Yau country. Throughout the whole upper the Madras Army ; Colonel J. A. Tillard, Assis- province the signs of restored confidence and tant Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery; and prosperity are apparent, dacoity and disaffection Major D. J. S. McLeod, Deputy Quartermaster- have been reduced within very narrow limits, a^nd General of the Madras Army, who accompanied British authority is everywhere predominant. » Sir Herbert Macpherson, and afterwards Sir 8. In view to this result the Commander-in- Charles Arbuthnot, to Burma with* the Madras Chief considers that too high praise can hardly Army Head-Quarters; Captain S. B. Beatson, be accorded to the Generals Commanding and llth Bengal Lancers, Military Secretary to Sir Staff Officers who have so ably planned and Herbert Macpherson, also mentioned by Sir carried out the operations decided on for the George White for subsequent services with the pacification of the country, and to the troops of Mounted Infantry ; and Major F. W. Hemming, all ranks, whose steadiness and gallantry under 5th Dragoon Guards, Military Secretary to Sir exceptionally arduous and trying circumstances Charles Arbuthnot, who was also employed in the have well sustained the reputation of Her Majesty's earlier stages of the campaign. army. 13. The Commander-in-Chief in India also 9. To the late Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert desires to bring to the favourable notice of Macpherson was entrusted by the Government Government the services of Major-General B. L. of India the duty of directing the cold-weather Gordon, C.B., Commanding the Burma Division, campaign. The death of this distinguished officer, and of his Assistant Quartermaster-General from disease brought about by exposure while his Captain M. W. Saunders, Royal Artillery, through preparations were still incomplete, placed the whose untiring exertions the laborious duty of direction in other hands ; and Sir Frederick landing and despatching the troops to Upper Roberts feels that no words of his are required to Burma was successfully performed throughout emphasize this loss to the army' of one of its the campaign. bravest and most devoted leaders. His Excellency would also refer with approval 10. When the cold weather operations were to the services of the troops detached from the drawing to a close, and a change could be safely Eastern Frontier Command to open up the com- effected, Lieutenant-General Sir C. G. Arbuthnot, munications between Assam and Upper Burma, K.C.B., who had in the meantime been appointed as brought to notice in the Despatch from Major- to succeed to the command of the Madras Army, General J. J. H. Gordon, C.B., hereto annexed. relieved Sir Frederick Roberts from the imme- diate direction of the campaign in Burma. 14. The entirely successful working of the The duty of winding up the cold weather ommissariat Department, presided over in the operations has been successfully carried into field by Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Laughton, effect by Sir Charles Arbuthnot to the entire .B., under conditions of exceptional difficulty, satisfaction of the Commander-in- Chief in India. lave been fully brought to notice by Major- 1 11. The executive command in Upper Burma 3-eneral Sir George White ; and the Commander- has been held from an early period in 1886 by in - Chief, in endorsing the Major - General's Major-General Sir G. S. White. On him de- remarks, desires to mention the services of volved the arduous task of keeping head against olonel H. P. Hawkes, Officiating Commissary ever-increasing dacoity throughout the hot and jreneral - in - Chief, on whom, as Commissary unhealthy months of the year ; and when the 3-eneral of the Madras Army, was imposed the time came that reinforcements could be safely responsibility of supplying the army in Burma. despatched, and th'e force in Upper Burma The efficiency of the department in the field assumed the proportions of an army, he continued mplies care and forethought at the base; and to exercise command over the whole as a General lis Excellency considers that Colonel Hawkes' of Division. services have merited the favourable recognition In this capacity Sir George White has fully of Government. established his skill and ability; and Sir Frederick 15. The successful administration of the Medi- Roberts trusts that his meritorious services may cal Department under Deputy Surgeon-General.