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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...
...brought out in the struggle between two war heroes, Billy Stafford and Lau Yew. Billy Stafford had helped organize Burmese resistance to the Japs. Fifteen times he parachuted into the jungles on secret missions. Recently, he organized in Malaya what he calls a "killers squad" to fight Communists. Malayan Chinese call Billy Tlh Sau-pah, the Iron Broom. On one of his recent raids, Stafford was after Lau Yew, a Chinese who was once Billy's comrade in arms in the fight against the Japanese. The British considered Leader Lau Yew such a hero that they flew...
...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...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...Singapore, Malcolm MacDonald, Governor General of British South-East Asia, charged that the wave of terrorism was "part of a deliberate plan by Malayan Communists to ... capture by force the government of the country." He accused the Reds of attempting to rule "not by a majority of votes, but by a majority of guns...