Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British lieutenant colonel who had escaped from the Japanese and was hiding in a Malayan mangrove swamp, wrote a letter to the Japanese occupation governor. Would His Excellency be so good as to mail to London the Englishman's diaries, which had been taken from him by his former Jap captors...
...severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...three people that manage to find 4000 jobs between them within a year might be considered somewhat unusual in the field of employment. Especially when those jobs range from walking dogs to teaching Malayan...
After Words, Deeds. The plan worked out at Calcutta called for simultaneous revolts in Burma and Malaya. Three months after the outbreak of the Malayan revolt, Indonesia's Communists were to strike. As coordination center for the drive a 26-man Soviet Legation, largest in Southeast Asia, was set up in Bangkok...
Dyak sophistication, however, is making progress along other lines. Malayan authorities were told that the only extra equipment required would be a shirt apiece. The Dyaks had other ideas. Jabu informed the camp commandant that each Dyak would need a messkit and cup, a groundsheet, a blanket and a mosquito...