It Was reported on April 18th. thet British security forces had captured Sheikh Osman Bin Mahmud, brother of the Brunei rebel ieader Inche A.M. Asahsri. Osman was wounded three times in the chest before being taken in a village only five miles from Brunei Towne
A police spokesman snid later that anothor brother had also been captured, but did not say how he was taken.
A company of No. 40 Royal Marine Commando arrived in Sarawak on April 18th. With troops of the 2/10 Gurkha Riflcs they are part of a military build-up bogun six days ago after an attack on Tebedu police station, near the border of Indonesian Borncc. According to reports this attack was earricd out by the North Kalimantan National Army lcd by the North Kalimantan Unitary State Rovolutionary Government. During the attack onc police constablo was killed and two wounded. All the arms in the station, according to a Euching report, Wore carricd away.
4 spokesman of the British suthorities in Sarawak admitted on April 12th. that the Tebcdu police station had been raidcd. Kuching Police commissioner P.E. Turnbull revealed that the arms taken included one bren gun, two stcrling guns, one revolver, fiftcen rifles, ono shot gun, and «a quantity of smmunition. Troops were sont to this region from Brunci ond Kuching on jpril 14th. & 14th. ond a thirteon-hour curfew has been enforecd in the first division of Sarawok. Since the Brunei armed uprising start’ last Docomber, Britain has ropoatecdly sont troops to the arcs. About thrce thousand British Troops ere now stationed there. Agcording to an announcement of the Brunei authoritios on April 9th., more than three thousand cight hundred pcople have been arrested since last December, ond more than two thousand three hundred of them are still under detention. In Singapore on April i10th., the Chairman of the Singapore Socialist Front Lee Siew Chow defended the struggle of tho North Kalimantan Peoplc. He snid that the Front's open support for this struggle was perfectly correct and just, and thot this wag a firm strugglc against coloninlism.