A certain native named Talleh, a Kedian prisoner, having esenped from custody at ndakan, raised a small Bornean force in the interior, and advanced against Limbawang, a Government station on the Padas river.
This place Talleh attacked and captured on the 29th instant, one Sikh being killed during the fight.
Mr. F. W. Fraser, aNorth Borneo Cadet, who was in charge of the district, escaped. He is now returning to Limbawang with a force vf eight Police and-thirty-five Dyaks, It is not yet known whether Tulieh is acting under Mat Salleh's orders, The Free Press has the following article in reference to the above To the recent insurrectionary attacks on: Gaya and Ambong, two stations on the coast of Province Keppel, inthe jurisdiction of the British North Borneo Government, {there is now, as our special telegram will show, to be added yet another attack upon and capture of an inland station in, the north part of Province Dent, named Lim-batang. Two considerations make this a serious affair for the North Borneo Government. One is that it has occurred as the immediate sequel of a.very serious repulse of aruilitary police force, in the effort to storm a strong stockade and blockhouse held by Mat Salle, the troublesome outlaw who is responsible for the Gaya and Ambong incidents,. Another consideration is, that
ascertained to have been directly associated this later afsirat Limbawang is not yet with Mat Salleh's action, but is possibly an independent effort of another leader this, therefore, all the more requiring strong steps on the part of the North Borneo Government to successfully. vindicate its authority, and strike a counterblow sufficiently definite in its results to
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