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the Maharajah Lela would not let him affix it. Seven times Mr. Birch affixed the Pro- clamation in the district of Pasir Salah, the Maharaja Lela tore it down. Among this all the Krani Mahomed Arshad hit with a stick a man who had been ordered by the Maharaja Lela to tear down the Proclamation. When this man was hit by Mahomed Arshad he pulled out his kris and stabbed Mahomed Arshad four times, one after the other, and he ran away to the boat. Then there came a Batak man, a man with his ears bored, and he stabbed Mr. Birch four times in succession, and he fell into the water and his body was not found. After this the people stabbed the Sepoys and the police, the number of Mr. Birch's men, including Mr. Birch and Mohamed Arshad, was 17 killed and 13 wounded. The Sepoys and the police ran away to the boat (prahu), the boat turned over and they ran to a boat (boat) and ran away to Bandar Bahru.

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On the 8th day of the month Shawal (8th November) a white man named Tuan Man, the "Acting Resident, came to attack the Maharaja Lela. At first he came opposite Tanjong Toh Tumonggong. Tuan Man was walking with about 300 men, soldiers and police and Malays. He reached the left side of the Bandar Tus. The Maharaja was' ready waiting for him on the left side of Bandar Tua towards Kampong Pisang. When Tuan Man reached Campong Pisang, Maharaja Lela gave the war cry three times, one after another. The Maharaja Lela then fired with a "Lela." Tuan Man was shot by the ball below the collar bone. Tuan Man fell dead, and Nacodab Jutra also was shot in the head and fell into the ditch and died; and of the Sepoys and police there fell also on that day (those who were killed in the fight); there were 100 on the side of the white men; on the side of the Maharajah Lela, I do not know at present.

At Durian Sabatang there is one man-of-war and five steamers, and the white men altogether and their Sepoys and the men of their ships amount to 1,500.

SIR,

SALUTATIONS.

Enclosure 7. in No. 82.

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Native, 6681/75 Klang.

HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S RESIDENT, Salangore, to COLONIAL SECRETARY, Straits

Settlements.

Klang, October 27, 1875.

I ARRIVED here on the 15th instant, and in consequence of the steamer "Tele- graph" having gone to dock at Singapore, this is the first opportunity I have had of communicating with you.

On my arrival I was met with the news that Uloo Klang had been burnt, that bands of armed people were about the country, and a great many other very alarming state- ments, among others, that armed bands were waiting to plunder boats going up and down the Klang and Salangore rivers, and that everything was ready for burning the towns of Pancallan batu and Qualla Lumpor, and murdering the people as they ran out of the houses, and that Rajah Mahdie was to come up the Klang river with such force as he could muster.

In this state of matters, and Mr. Robinson being here, I thought it better to remain here in the meantime, taking precautions for the protection against fire of this town and Qualla Lumpor, and endeavour to find out what was the actual state of things. Also to be ready to strike a blow wherever it would be most effective. For the purpose of getting information I visited Salangore on the 21st instant and returned on the night of the 22nd, and visited Langat on the 25th, and returned here last night.

I shall now state what I consider to be the actual state of affairs so far as I can ascertain,

The first step taken seems to have been Rajah Kamza (Mahdie's brother) going to Pahang, probably about the beginning of August, and asking assistance from the Rajah of Pahang for his brother in operating against Klang, which request I am told and believe was refused.

When in Pahang Rajah Kamza went into the interior, where there are some of the old Salangore chiefs, who were driven out during the last disturbances. He hed interviews with some of these men and some of the inland Pahang chiefs, particu- larly the Orang Kaya Pahlawan, who is said to feel sore at being deprived of the revenue he formerly got from Uloo Klang, but I have not been able to ascertain the result of any of these interviews. There are a good many lawless characters in the interior of Pahang, and I have no doubt that a number of them will join any party in attacking the interior of Klang or Salangore if there is a reasonable prospect of plunder. I have not been

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able to trace Rajah Kamza farther till the 28th of September, when he turned up in Langat. All the information I have about his doings in Langat is contained in the enclosed copy of a statement made to me yesterday by Ally Mohamet, who is now in charge of the police there. I made such inquiries as I could during my short stay at Langat, whether Rajah Kamza was still at Tampoi, but I could not get any certain infor- mation. Tampoi is a branch of the Jugra river, about two miles from the mouth of it.

The next matters which can be traced with any accuracy are the movements of Rajah Broman. This man has for sometime had his head-quarters at Slim, in the interior of Perak, quite close to the borders of Salangore. He lives, I am told, purely by plunder- ing. He has made several raids into the interior of Salangore, and carried off "Sackies, whom he has sold in Perak. The last of these raids was made several months ago, when he was followed up by the Salangore people, and nearly captured. It has always been said that these raids were planned and promoted by Syed Masahore and a man called Tunku or Rajah Ally, who resides at Slim, and is one of the chiefs who was banished from Pahang when the present Bandahara succeeded in getting that country.

With reference to Rajah Broman I enclose a statement made to me by Shaik Mohamet Ally, who is now in charge of Uloo Klang, and partly from his statement corroborated by others, I extract the facts now to be stated. Rajah Broman was seen on or about the 23rd of September at Gombah in the interior of Klang with 36 men all fully armed. He may have had many more belonging to his party. They had come from Slim and were going to Uloo Langat. Had they followed the ordinary path they would have passed through Uloo Birnam, where there are a number of inhabitants, then through the inhabited part of Uloo Salangore, after that through Bandar alor Gadjah and Kanching, and lastly through the town of Qualla Lumpor and the mining districts there, but they must have kept to the jungle avoiding all inhabited places, and this fact, with the number and arms of the party, strongly indicates that their mission was not a legitimate one. Rajah Broman and his party were next found at Uloo Langat about the 26th of Sep- tember, where they had an interview with Sultan Poasah, who bad evidently gone on from Kadjang to meet them. If any belief can be placed on the statement of Shaik Mahomed Ally's spy with reference to what took place at this meeting there can be no doubt of what the party intend. Sultan Poasah after that interview went down the river, and asked for and got a pass from the Sultan to bring 200 Mandsling men from Uloo Birnam through the interior of the Salangore and Klang districts to Uloo Langat. He was at Langat on the 29th and 30th September when was there, but did not come to see me, and it was only by accident when I was going out of the river that I knew of his being at Langat. After this Rajah Broman and his party, or a portion of it, returned to Slim, but while they are about the outrage at Podoh is committed on 23rd of September; and 12 shops in Uloo Klang are burnt on the 8th of October, the place having been undoubtedly set on fire by outside people. If Shaik Mohamed Ally's information from Slim is trustworthy Rajah Broman's party virtually boasted of burning the place. The men to be brought in from Uloo Birnam under the Sultan's pass are no doubt the 400 men mentioned in Mr. Hayward's memorandum of 19th September as having been col lected by Syed Masahore at Uloo Birman. I am informed by Rajah Etam and others from Birnam and I believe that there are no men whatever collected at Uloo Birnam, and I have no doubt that the men intended to be brought in under the Sultan's pass are to come from Slim and its neighbourhood, and that the 20 kegs of gunpowder which Kamsa was to take from the Sultan's magazine to Perak, as mentioned by Ally Mohamet, were intended to be smuggled into Perak for the use of these men in operating against Klang. Another fact to be noticed is that Sultan Poasah and Rajah Kamza were at Langat at the same time, and had frequent meetings, ume of which was of such a private nature that it was held some miles up the river. There can be little doubt, I think, that Sultan Posssh, Rajah Broman, and Rajah Kamza are all acting together in conjunction with Rajah Muhdie and others, and I much fear that Rajah Kahsi is mixed up with them.

The statement that Rajah Etam of Birnam had joined Mahdie I believe to be entirely untrue. It is contrary to all probability, arguing from Etam's previous history. He came here on the 23rd inst., and begged me to go with him to Birnam to calm the minds of his people, who he said were very much alarmed and wanted to leave the place on account of Mr. Birch having intimated that be intended to impose very heavy taxes on the Birnam river, and establish a station at the mouth of it for the collection of the taxes, Had he been preparing to join Mahdie, it is not likely be would have come here or have invited me to go to Birnam at this juncture, unless, indeed, he intended

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