[251] For years afterwards, perhaps to this day, as a measure of superabundant caution, the city gates were closed early in the night, to the annoyance and inconvenience of strayed revellers returning late from dance or dinner without the walls.
[252] Brigadier-General W. H. Dobbie, C.B., commanding a brigade in India.
[254] For many years Chinese adviser to the Government of Burma.
[255] Colonel F. B. Longe, C.B., R.E., formerly Surveyor-General in India.
[256] Colonel E. W. M. Norie, A.D.C., Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office.
[257] Major J. W. L. ffrench-Mullen, C.I.E., Commandant of the Myitkyina Battalion of Military Police.
[258] A temporary hall built for the occasion, of mats and bamboos, gaily adorned with flowers and curtains and paper ornaments.
[259] Teacher.