LANGKHONGKHUNNOU/LUKHAMTLANGA BRITISH SEPAI HEI:-

After the Japanese left LangkhongKhunnou for Songpherkholen, the British soldiers, a troop of 100 built camps along the roads to Kangchup and LukhamNagas. These camps were strongly fenced with thorns and barb wires. One day, PuTongjaler‘s cow got stuck at and killed, and he was compensated later. According to the rumor that spread in the area that some of the soldiersof the camp were Africans and they ate human. This had frightened the village children very much.

During those days, fleet of war-planes flew in the deep clouds regularly with a thundering sound but without any scene of them. So, the villagers thought that those were the sound of the trumpet call of the SECONDCOMING.  Also, the sound made by the war-planes had become the talk of the village; menfolk of the village gathered at one place, drank and debated, and even sometime quarreled among themselves over the issues of: who would win the war?Pu.ThangjalenLuphengheld that Japanese won’t win the war as they did not know how to taste tobacco liquid (Lheibotui) and instead drank up at one sip.Pu.HmunkhothangTelensaid, “Kumpini(King George) men collected disease into a jar, and they’re gonna open in the Japanese land; the disease will kill all big and small man alike”. Another villager, Pu.LerkhopaoHmangtealso added that the queen of Britain (Kumpinirengnu) had sent 10 bottles of wine to the maharacha (king of Manipur). Like this way,every evening, the village menfolk had debated over the war issues and other petty matters. Among the women group, Aunt LamjangLupheng, a spinster had given a very funny comment on the masculinity comparing the Japanese and them (einipasehei). She saidwithout feeling any regards for, “You people had high regards of the Japanese or the whites; I have seen themwhile relieving themselves (defecating)and they……. no difference from our men!”