Where Prisoners Don't Want To Escape
Rehabilitation Camps For Red Sympathisers In Malay States
Ipoh, July 8. From mountain retreats in North Malaya, guerillas can look down on two camps where Communist suspects and surrendered terrorists are housed by the Government.
One is at Ipoh, where detainees stare, sullen or expressionless, at European visitors. The other is at Taiping, where the same callers are greeted with spontaneous smiles.
In wired compounds, the inmates of the Ipoh detention camp are heavily guarded. They are idle and disgruntled."
In the Taiping rehabilitation a week from outside and com- |-and live democracy instead camp Industrfous "students" munity leaders call at the camp
move freely about the grounds aware that they could easily escape it they wished, There are guards on the outside only--to prevent the guerillas from getting in
These
camps
enter for the various types among the 10,000 Emergency detainers throughout Malaya who are providing the author!lies
with large-cate headache.
The Ipoh camp, with 3,300 in- mates, is the largest of seven institutions dotted round similar the country.
"guests"
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to talk to them and sten to their grievances,
police
the
of having it preached to them.
his "students".
There
A Cantonese-speaking Chinese affairs officer, Mr George Cigarettes are not issued but Rothery, of Sussex,
who runs Sny their
diet of rier, the Taiping camp, believes that vegetables, pork and sh jait is useless to try and discipline Batisfactory.
Visual contact between
is no obvious appeal compounds has been stopped
vold co-ordinated dum toto patriotism with the Malayan only to cominon tions.
sense, he ваув.
The school attempts to instil into the detainees a sense of civic-mindedness.
In less than a year, 102 erstwhile suspected Communists have been freed to rejoin the community.
a
A few months ago, they staged six-day hunger strike because Kome of their privileges had been taken away following a demonstration,
Camp intelligence has learned
include 330 that the Communist-inspired They went straight to gond
women, 160 surrendered terror-whisper among the detainees is: Jobs. Six of them volunteered isis, 30 former police informers If you are deported to China for the police force to join the who do not feel safe living on the outside and 40 Chinese towkayn you will be able to return with fight
nguinst. the terrorists.
(wealthy business men) who he "Malayan Liberation Regi-Thirteen of the present inmates
the Chinesu Red
of ment
Army.
were caught paying subscriptions C to the Communists.
years.
be
Young Chinese, in particular, arc showing eagerness to included in the flow of deportees to Communist China.
COSTLY BUSINESS
More than 400 of the suspcets have been interned for over two RED CELLS Mostly Chinese, with a sprink-
The Malayan Government has ling of Malays and Indians, they
South the started deportations to have been arrested under
of Emergency Regulations during China again after a lapse the last three years on suspicion that they have helped the Com- munist terrorists in some way or other.
Top omelala say frankly that some of them were undoubtedly Innocent of any crime when they were first picked up.
over a year. Two chartered ships a month being used to transport port Emergency detainees their families back to their home country.
The reception officer at one South China port in a former inmate of the Ipola Detention Comp-a confirmed Communist.
are Deportations
slowly of the the reducing
backlog undesirables in the crowded
It is just one of the necessary evils of the Emergency, that the anti-terrorist efforts of police and military would be crippled if euch case had to be examined fully and the suspect brought to trial.
camps but it is a costly business. Meanwhile, what has become known as the "Taiping experi- The tragedy, one police off-ment" is proceeding serenely. cer sald, is that some of these Carefully-screened male de- "Innocent bystanders" are now tainees between the ages of 17 probably confirmed Commun- and 40, who are not known to Jats.
have belonged to the Malayan Authorities
Party but at Ipok
Communist little doubt that there is a Com- merely under munist cell in every compound. "More Communists are being bred here than in the Jungle" one officer commented,
have
There is growing pressure in high quarters to have this de- tention camp system scrapped, but the difficulty is to find satisfactory alternative,
Were
the terrorists, are enrolled for a period of rehabilitation.
USEFUL LABONATORY
Results are still to be seen, but the authorities consider the
a useful laboratóry camp
the victims of studying Emergency.
But
are in Taiping on parole, work- ing at sawmilla, business houses and in the tin mines.-Reuter
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1951.
Malik Plays Mine Host At Waldorf
SHOWING
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Los Angeles, July 8. Mr Thio Cham Bee, member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of Singapore, sald here yesterday that the op- plication of "moral rearmament had averted # principles" "potential civil war' between Chinese and Malays in Malaya
He was addressing 400 dele- gates from 16 nations at the of the Moral opening session Rearmament Assembly for the reconstruction of Paclic reln-
lions, (Moral foarmament is
Defence Spending Request Only A Beginning
Washington, July 8.
Mr Karl Bendetsen, Assistant Secretary of
Russia's Jacob. Malik (centre) served Russian caviare and champagne when he entertained 40 the UN delegates at Waldorf Hotel in New York. At left is Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and on right Ernest Gross, of the U.S.AP Photo.
PEACEFUL
the Army, said today that the Defence Depart- SIAM VITAL ment's request for $6,500,000,000 to build new
military facilities was but one instalment of a huge TO
programme.
EAST
London, July 7. Appearing on the network Radio Forum, Mr
The importance of stabi Bendetsen said the sum asked for the coming 24
Siam's internak in lity "with armed forces months would not supply the
affairs to ensure uninter what would be required in the event of all-out war.
rupted rice supplies, to "We will come back with South-East Asia is referred funder instalments and re evaluate
the programme from to in a Daily Telegraph. leader today. It recalls that time to time."
He said the requested sum the case of Burma showed part of a building pro- the Western world just how gramme designed to create
full rice-bowl "mobilisation base which ought quickly a
PROPHECY
WAS
ment which was formerly called PREMATURE
an international religious move-
the Oxford Group).
Mr Thio Chan Bee said that,
Chinese
com-
at the end of the last war, the
and Malayan nunities each numbering two and a half million were bitter- y opposed. Through applying the moral rearmament princi- ples he had learned, Mr Thio Chan Bee was able to get the lenders together, he said.
"I deadlock can be solved
Insolubio," he declared.
New York, July 8, Mr Harry Dovereaux, President of the American Wool Council,
Was
a
to be capable of dynamic ex- could be emptied by poli- pansion in the event that all-tieni and military chaos. out war is forced upon us. Thle
is
a programme designed avold such all-out war."
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man
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to It adds that biller experience elsewhere has also taught us how the Communists at plans call for adept are has accused My Eric Johnston bases and erection of new ones
expansion of existing military turning unexpected developments
to account.
Commenting on the return, to cooking rash and incorrect
Stabilisation Director,
the United States and in
places throughout the power of Marshal Fibul Song- gram, the paper remarks that he statements about the existence of many
world. an adequate substitute for wool.
win has recently proved himself The Air Forco alone
on whom the West could The Council released today the
.rely, 77 extra bases, some ofrei It recalls that he has tried text telegram sent by Mrcpen
in Europe, the. Mediter-lo close the Siamese frontier the influence of between Chinese and Malays. Devereaux to Mr Johnston, who them
sleadlock in the world is not "ynthetic wool"
against the terrorists in Malaya, was reported as saying that ranean and North Africa,
do to would
Much of the proposed work and has sent troops to Korea,
It is also true, continues the The Assembly, which lasts fool what nylon did to silk and is so secret it is not specifically
Telegraph, that there are many until July 16, will deal with that it should be produced to mentioned in legislation steps necessary to answer
suceerd wool.
The $0,500,000,000 Instalment people in Slam to whom such the
its first policies are unacceptable, for bid of Communism in the Orient
The telegram said that Mr has already passed
with intelligentsin, fascinated by Com hurdle theby providing a democratic idea Johnston's statement did a grave Congressional
entire
munism's doctrinal appeal, see wool little actual money cut out. which is "mure dynamic and disservice to the
conceded growing and wool textile indus- Members an official announce-rics of the country,
privately China their promised land; the
Chinese there is a happy con- satisfying
merchant-class, fascinat- that real culs made so to ted by their country's_raw" tented atmosphere about this ment
Even the most optimistic pro- talled a mere $25,000,000 and built on the slip of the It added that the Assembly
material camp
sirength, see in Com- would vid Taiping racecourse,
also discuss
ducer of synthetic fibres would slashes proposed for the Air how to
no Furce admit freely that to date
were nothing but book-munism a force with which they They have a free hand in the eliminate the causes
must come to terms, But no such thoughts
to are likely
have 14 acres under cultivation, ex-camp to work hard at vocation- colour and class conflict and synthetic fibre had been produced keeping reductions.
which was comparable to wool
been present in the minds of trades and schooling, play establish
in its exclusive qualities
of pro- cept for the piecemeal vegetable al
readjust for a "genuine peace" in the tection, wear and service.
the Siamese Naval leaders, it patches inside the compounds. immes and generally
Paciile.
because Overton considers,
they They are allowed a certain themselves
Mr Johnston's conclusion was
top-ranking House sat Brooks,
reputed to be opposed to all amount of sport.
Armed Services Committee foreign influences,
including apparently interested advice from someone
oppeuring on the those of China and oron your own lack of know- Democrat ledge of the basic facts regarding sure programme, said the new munisza.
ies" building programme should be the great wool Abre industries," the telegram added,
under way this autumn within month After Congress provides the money.
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In tiny case the camp has only
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Mrs. B. H. Oon, a meraber of the Legislative Assembly of Maloya, told the delegates that if
Malaya were lost 10 Com- munism a large hole would be made in the defence of the West. "It would mean the loss not only of tin and rubber but of the whole of South-East Asia," she said.
The Assembly received a message from the • APANESE Premier, My Yoshida, saying that It afforded a "splendid opportunity to mobilise world public opinion for the cause of democracy and freedom." Reuter.
Dewey Visit
To Front
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Pusan, July 8. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, arrived in Pusan by a Constellation aircraft
For of the diy on bla bour Fast, Australia and New Zea- land,
based
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to be used build longer quarrel with the present regline. and stronger runways to ac-London Express Service,
on behalf of a American wool growers, wool
In textile manufacturers and other members of the Wool Council would Reuter.
Unique Photos Of Everest
commodate new groups and the shore part of naval air and in the Army for construction numerous warehouses,
WORDS WERE
CONCEALED
Washington, July 8. The Federal Trade Com-
by
He added that the building programme also involved some expansion of troop and training installations, including plana for eight railhead facilities mission today issued a com- that would he stripped dows plaint against 12 United States to the bone with underground sewing-machine companies for utililles provided, a few storm "deception of the public houses and overhead utilities, failing to reveal the Japanese Sewing-machina. of so in time of war, "our units origin New Delhi, July 8.
The Commission will Mr J. Bannerjee, Inspecter could move right in and be heuds". General
of Foresta of
the accommodated."-United Press. open hearings on the complaints
on Sept 4. Indian Ministry of Agriculture,
It charged thut, although, End claimed today that he
imported machine heads Hore photographed unconquered Mount Everest from within
or "Japan Japan
in the elight miles due southwest.
assembling process these words commenting on →
werd concealed by the motor statement in London by Mr
and not visible. It also noted: Eric Shipton, who will lead an
"There is among members of Washington, July 8. expedition to the world's highest
the purchasing public a sub- winter from the
The political stock of red colded preference for products number who have a peaks. this
dent Truman, which has bobbed | dcc up and down spectacularly, in originating in the United States the last six years, is duo for over products originating. 4, powerful new upswing if the whole or in part in foreign
including Bowing Bannerjee added: "I have negotiations are successful countries secured valuable data for the Korea, according to. predle-machine heads."Urátod. Fress,
tions of Kost Volly irrigation project
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in
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Ho said he would remain in Korea for two days, during which he would address the South Korean Assembly, fly to
south. Seoul and visit frontline units
Mr Shipton had said that the of the Eighth Army.
south
face of Everest had been The United States Ambassa neither mapped, nor
Mucelo, and the dor, Mr Jo
the graphed. Commander of Deputy Elghth Army, Lieutenant-Gen- eral John R Coulter, the South Korean Prime Minister,
and have taken cine-photo- Dr John M. Chang, and most graphs for the first time
The concensus of informed fromm
observers is that "vindication" of the members of the National
an altitude of 14,000 feet.
of Mr Truman's Korea policy Assembly welcomed Mr Dowey
"This is an area where
no might set off a boom in the at the airport.
has, President'a
that popularity About
180 members of the man, to my knowledge,
penetrated."
Dr Frank Graham, United Assembly joined in the
would carry him to another
in representative four-year term in the White Nations
W Kashmir, which groeted plauso
House.
will not stay here Dowey.
Moscow, July 8, He told them, "Korea is not
arguments for more than two weeks, ac- Equally oogent
Press The Indian Ambassador to the have been advanced in, the last cording to his Officer tq fighting alone.
My
day men arm ready to fight for the Soviet Union, Dr 8. Radhakrish few days that the end of the
and his party. collective security of thehen, returned here today after nghting in Korea, providing that De Graham.
will arrived a month's leavo in Parin, where 12 sticks. for at least a year,
this afternoon world, teg
sald he WEB looking ho attended the conference of
štoji natirë. from ouico there with the Indian Prime forward to returning to Korea the United Nations Becuomie, tund, the President an oppor from New Delhi affer talks
Nehru again."when pedon: soiting on Scientife and Cultural Or gracefully and with honour Minister, Mr: Jawaha
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