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...nicknamed "Shorty," was No. 2 man in the Communist terror forces in Malaya. Until rewards were abolished three months ago by the British, the price on Ah Kuk's head-$66,000-was second only to that offered for Party Secretary General Chin Peng ($83,000). The three Chinese, after turning in Ah Kuk's head, obligingly demonstrated how they had killed him. Surprising him had been simple, they explained. They were Shorty Kuk's personal bodyguards...
Their leader is Lieut. General Peng Tso-hsi, a slight, near-bald man of 51, who commanded the Nationalist Twenty-Sixth Army until the Red victory, then crossed with what was left of his troops into Indo-China...
Their camp, guarded by medieval-looking sentries carrying tasseled spears, is divided into streets along which sit neat, wooden barracks with thatched roofs, a big theater, an ambitious hospital building for which there is almost no equipment. Each day General Peng runs his troops through stern drills with dummy guns, tanks and jeeps, subjects them to political orientation lectures as intense as those practiced by the Communists, though with a far different message. There have been few desertions to the Communist Viet Minh forces which rove nearby, and the army has maintained good relations with the surrounding French and Indo...
...Templer decided that the war was going well enough for him to cancel all standing information rewards. The decision, explained the government, was influenced by "a desire to return to normal." There is still a chance to earn some $80,000 by capturing No. 1 Malayan Communist Leader Chin Peng before the March 1 deadline; after that an informer will have to consider duty its own reward...
...wall newspapers, political plays, tireless singing of Communist songs. When an informer was brought in, "after being burned with brands and beaten almost to death with rattans, [he was] finished off with a bayonet in the grave that had been prepared for [him]." Out of these surroundings came Chin Peng, slight, 31, pimply-faced, fanatical leader of the Malayan Communists, for whose capture the British will...