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Tuanku Antar has joined and is assisting the bad characters who have conducted them. selves in the manner I have just described, and has also written to H.B.M. Resident very improper, threatening, and unneighbourly letter.
I wish to point out to the Tuanku Antar that the British Government cannot overlook the misconduct of these bad people, and that if he joins them or in any way directly or indirectly assists them, or allows the people of Sree Menantee to do so, he and his people must be prepared to meet the inconvenience and suffering that their foolish misconduct will inevitably entail upon them.
I advise the Tuanku Antar to consider well and to weigh in his mind what I have written, as well as the consequences of neglecting the warning I now give him.
(Signed) A. E. H. ANION.
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I, therefore, on behalf of the British Government, thank my friend for acting as a good friend and a good neighbour in this matter.
I should be glad if my friend would use his great influence with the Datus of the other States, and advise them to follow the good example he has himself set, and by this moars save themselves and their people from the trouble and suffering they will by their present foolish course of action inevitably bring down upon them.
It would give me great pleasure if my friend would come to Sungie Ujong, and meet me and talk over with me in a friendly manner those matters which are of interest to and for the good of both my friend's country and the Settlement of Malacca.
A. E. H. ANION,
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Enclosure 9. in No. 130.
TO DATOH MUAR.
Sungie Ujong Residency, December 17, 1875. I INFORM my friend that I have been sent by the Great Governor of the three Settle. ments to inquire into the present state of affairs in Sungie Ujong and the neighbouring States of Datu Muar, Sri Minantee, Rambow, Jellabu, Jumpole, and Johole, and to ascertain why armed persons have come from the State over which you rule as Datu, and have threatened the peace of the State of Sungie Ujong, in which a British officer has, at the request and with the consent of the Datu Klana, been placed as Resident, and have attacked the troops of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain when sent to the assistance of the Datu Klana to expel them.
I shall feel much obliged to my friend if he will give me information on this subject, and take measures to prevent persons passing through his territory to attack that of Sangie Ujong and create disturbance in it.
If my friend will do this I shall know that he is indeed a friend of the British Govern. ment, and shall then have much pleasure in treating him as such, and I shall be glad to see my friend here at the house of the British Resident of Sungie Ujong and make his acquaintance, and talk over matters that are for the benefit of his country, as well as that of Sungie Ujong and the British Settlement of Malacca.
But should my friend allow persons to pass through his territory with the intention of causing annoyance to the people of Sungie Ujong, or of creating a disturbance in or of attacking that territory, I can only regard the Datu of Muar as a very bad neighbour, and he must not be surprised if he is treated as such by the British Government, and he be put and his people must be prepared to suffer any inconvenience or trouble they may to by the action of the Queen's troops when dealing with those bad persons who make use of his territory as a high road to invade the State of the Datu Klana of Sungie Ujong.
A. E. H. ANSON,
December 17, 1875.
(Signed)
Enclosure 11. in No. 130.
From COLONEL Anson to the Amsistant Lieutenant-Governor, Malacca.
Paroci, December 21, 1875, 10–11 a.m.
Just reached Paroe and received a note from Mr. Kynnersley, written 6 a.m., reporting.
HON. ACTING Lieutenant-Governor, Malacca,
Colonel Clay just returned from Bukit Putus. Two stockades were found there last evening by Captain Channer, 1st Goorkas, who with 25 men were sent to reconnoitre. He found 30 men in one stockade, who were cooking, and taken by surprise. Captain Channer was the first in the stockade, and shot one man with his revolver, five of the enemy were killed, and the stockade was evacuated. One Goorka Naik was killed, and one Goorks wounded, after some firing the enemy evacuated the other stockade, which was occupied by the Arab contingent, and both stockades are now occupied by the
Colonel Clay and the rest of the troops are encamped about 14 miles this side of Bukit Putus, and has just sent back coolies for the remainder of his stores which he left here in charge of a detachment of three Goorkas. It is reported that the road through the pass is blocked up with trees.
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The stockade is described as a very strong one, and had the enemy not been surprised would have proved a serious obstacle. The Arabs fired among the troops.
(Signed)
A. E. H. Anson, Colonel.
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(After compliments.)
Enclosure 10. in No. 130.
To the DATOH of RUMBOW.
Sungie Ujong, December 17, 1875.
I HAVE to inform my friend that I have been sent to Sungie Ujong by the Great Governor of the three Settlements to inquire into the state of affairs connected with the present disturbances in Sungie Ujong, caused by evil disposed persons from some of the neighbouring States, who have advanced through the country of the Datu Muar, and have attacked and fired upon the troops of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, who had been sent to the assistance of the Datu Klana of Sungie Ujong, and to protect his country from being invaded by a combination of the bad characters from those neighbouring States.
I am informed that my friend, who has always shown himself to be a good neighbour to the officer administering the government of the Settlement of Malacca, has again acted, as was to be expected from him, as a good and wise friend, and bas warned his people not to join the bad characters of the other States in causing trouble in the territory of Sungie Ujong.
Enclosure 12. in No. 130.
COLONEL ANSON to HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
His Excellency the Governor,
Terrachee, December 28, 1875, 11 p.m.
I BEG to inform you that Colonel Hill and the troops under his command, as detailed in a previous communication, accompanied by Captain Stirling, R.N., and the naval detachment from H.M.S. "Thistle," effected the difficult flank march from the Datu Klana's house, by Pantay to Terrachee, between early on Sunday morning, 19th, and 3 p.m. yesterday the 22nd, having, on account of the almost impassable state of the jungle path which had during the last 20 years been nearly disused, been delayed more than a day longer than had been anticipated. They met with some newly erected stockades on nearing Terrachee, but the enemy, without making any opposition, fled at their approach.
Colonel Clay and his force left the Datu Sultans on Monday afternoon, and reached this by Paroe, Bukit Putus, and Bandole about the same time. At Bukit Patus pass which for some distance is a mere ditch, the bottom of which is not more than 18 inches wide, with the sides sloping outwards, so that at the height of a man's shoulder it is not more than three or four feet in width, three stockades were met with, one in the middle of the pass commanding the path, situated on a small hill about 25 feet high, with the pass on one side and a corresponding hollow not cleared of jungle on the
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