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...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
Last week General 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...
...suggest General Sir Gerald Templer who, in such a short time, has achieved so much in working to clear Communism in the Malayan Peninsula? Without his ability the Communists will certainly . . . overrun all of Southeast Asia...
When he had finished, the reporter from the Communist Daily Worker asked him if his collective punishment policy was not the same as that used by the Nazis. Templer's lip curled into a smile like a soundless snarl. Grimly he recited the prosaic, ghastly facts & figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter...
...Templer's day-a triumphant return, though his acidulous manner did not show it; long ago he had learned never to drop his guard, or to expose a lurking sensitivity inside. The tough, tired soldier had told Churchill he wanted to get back to the army when this job was done. But he was thinking now of a more peaceful haven than the army. "I don't like this world," he once remarked in Malaya. "It's not my kind of world. I want a little farmhouse in the south of Italy or France, with a garden...