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OUTBREAK AMONG NATIVES

ON MALAY PENINSULA., The High Commissioner reports :— • • LONDON, 4th May, 4.50 p.m. An outbreak in which a Malay ser§eant of police was killed occurred on aturday among the Malays in Pasir Puteh, a district of Kelantan. The cause is stated to be a disinclination to pay taxes. It was decided as a precautionary measure to send 260 men from Singapore. The British Adviser at Kelantan reported on Monday that the first account of the disturbance was somewhat exaggerated, and that there was no reason for alarm. [Kelantan is under British protection. It is on tho eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, has an area estimated at 5500 square miles, and a population of close upon 300,000.] .

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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 8

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OUTBREAK AMONG NATIVES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 8

OUTBREAK AMONG NATIVES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 8