Word: lumpur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain had some 550,000 men under arms, most of them still in training but fairly well equipped. They were scattered, however, from Aldershot to Kuala Lumpur. By next year, London expects to have 347,000 men in the British Isles and continental Europe alone. As for immediately available combat divisions, most guesses were that the United Kingdom had two. The Royal Air Force was relatively strong, with an estimated 6,000 planes...
Gangster films, the Municipal Council decreed last week, could no longer be shown in Kuala Lumpur, the Malay capital. The Malaya sector of the Communist campaign for Southeast Asia was heating up so rapidly that the Kuala Lumpur city fathers decided that they had best call a halt on Hollywood terror...
...green-uniformed rebel band took over the small mining town of Batuarang, just north of the placid Malayan capital of Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going...
Last spring a five-man team of doctors at the British Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, about 200 miles from Singapore, began treating victims of scrub typhus with the new antibiotic* called chloromycetin (TIME, Nov. 10). Chloromycetin reduced the fever in one day. But in two cases the fever did not go down until the third day. The doctors checked again, found that the two third-day patients actually had typhoid fever. They picked eight cases of known typhoid fever, again reduced the fever in three days. Three cases of typhoid in Baltimore hospitals later responded the same...
...last week opened, the fall of Kuala Lumpur was announced coincident with the establishment of a new line 170 miles north of Singapore. Then that line crumbled. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Japanese bombers in 50-to 125-plane batches pounded the city of Singapore. A drenching tropical rain poured down. There was only one island of hope in the dampness: the Aussies were moving up to fight...