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Unlike nearby IndoChina's war, Malaya's fight against Communist terrorists was going great guns. Reported Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer: "We're beginning to get the shooting under control." Able General Templer had methodically totted up statistics to prove his case. The shooting score: back in June 1951, an average of 20 incidents each day; in the first half of this month, an average of four a day. In the four-year war 3,514 Reds had been killed, 965 captured, and 827 had surrendered. In the same period the Reds had killed...
...first time there were fewer terrorist acts than police actions against the terrorists, and recent skirmishes showed that the Reds are short of arms. Such items, said General Templer, mark the turning point in Malaya's war. A possible reason for the decline: Moscow had ordered the Reds to drop terrorism, concentrate on winning the Malayan people...
General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's crisp, aggressive High Commissioner for Malaya, is slowly gaining ground in his war with the Red guerrillas. He has some 400,000 troops, police and home guards against about 5,000 Communists. Malaya is laced with barbed wire, crisscrossed with searchlights, webbed with interlocking patrols. More & more Malays and Chinese are whispering against the bandits, although many fear Red reprisals. Templer recently uprooted 66 men, women & children from one village and put them in a detention camp for failing to inform against Communist assassins...
...Malayan dignitaries. The dinner was to take place at the exclusive Lake Club in Kuala Lumpur, but the club committee refused permission on the ground that a half-century-old custom prohibits Asian guests. The club's action enraged Britain's dynamic new High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, charged with conducting the war against the Reds. "Men who have come thousands of miles to fight Communism in Malaya," said he, "British boys, Rhodesians, Gurkhas, Africans, Fijians, are all risking life side by side with Malay, Chinese and Indian lads. These men . . . know that the things which they...
...Templer arrived back in Malaya to find that a Chinese leader, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, had already made a start toward solving the problem...