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NAKODAH ORLONG

Two things greater than all things
are,
One is Love and the other War
RUDYARD KIPLING

ON the day after my arrival at Bandar Bharu,
Captain Innes, R.E., came from Penang
accompanied by two officers and sixty men of the
First Battalion of H.M. loth Regiment, together
with the Superintendent of the Penang Police (Hon.
H. Plunket) and twenty native constables armed
with rifles.
an able member of
Captain Innes, exceptionally
his distinguished corps, was then in civil employ as
head of the Public Works Department in Penang.
When the news of Mr. Birch's murder reached that

place, the nearest British Settlement, Captain Innes
was sent with a force to take charge of the
Residency.
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