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...from the British, Australian and New Zealand air forces worked over a 1,600-mile tract of jungle in Perak. On the ground, patrols crept toward the shattered target areas, cutting their way through underbrush as high as a man's head. British artillery plastered one sector near Sungei Siput with 25-pounders. An Australian battery poured mortar fire into another area, while only 400 yds. away a platoon of weary New Zealanders sweated out their 15th day of waiting for the enemy to show himself. For 33,000 Malayan and other Commonwealth troops, it was an exasperating kind...
Immediately, 70 miles to the south, Templer clamped a new curfew and a reduced rice ration on the 4,000 inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...
When daylight came again the bombers recommenced their deadly work on artillery emplacements and lines that were held by courage, not strength. A khaki flood was pouring on Singapore along a two-mile front between Sungei Mandai and Sungei Kranji. The sprawling suburbs of Singapore heard the whine of machine gun bullets almost constantly above the roar of strafing planes. In the whole day there were only 31 minutes free from bombing from the air. Defending artillery fire still rumbled comfortingly, but it seemed to lessen. The skies were red with the flames of burning oil tanks, and then smoke...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...