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Chinese Secret
Societies
Flourishing In Singapore
Singapore, Dec, 28.
Chinese secret societies, with colourful names and criminal charac teristics, still persist in Singapore after being banned by law for more than 60 years.
to forgive our enemies, to pray for them that persecute us,
"With God's grace we do that A police report stated that sunk in the mists of Chinese | as the sučiatiks themselves. but 1 do not think that we can there are about 300 of these antiquity.
Much of it has been lost, too. say of the new enemies of Christ societies in the Colony. Thres Thie trials originally had through the imprisonment, that they know not what they hundred draw their members admirable patriotic and social didportation of death of the do Let us make no mistake from Hokkien and other clans mollves. But rivalries and dis relatively few who knew its about it. There is nothing un originating in the Chinese pro- orders, arising from a lust for intricate pattern. planned or haphazard about this vinee of Fultibh, and the rowealth and power, had already Communist war upon religion."mainder are of Cantonese and made them a disturbing in- SECRET SIGNS GO
United Press.
Hylam (Hainaneso) origin. fluente when they established
The report said that not all
In Malaya and The Japanese-killed many Toll Of Avalanches of these
19th secret society officials during carly in the accieties are really dangerous
World War II, but it named 15 which it described as "trouble- Innsbruck, Dec, 28.
quarrels beenmo # With the passing of the ritual An avalanche in the Austrian some."
serious inenace to peace and has also gone the numerous Alps claimed another victim Singapore's modern Secret Food order. A fight in Singapore hierarchy of society government yesterday, increasing this sco-societies are degenerate descen- between Cantonese and Hokkien ranging down from a president BON'S toll from the "whito dents of the numerous and societies in 1884, for example, and vice-presidents to a host of death" to 28-Associated Press. powerful triads whose roots lasted ten days and resulted in minor officials.
about 600 beftig killed and an equal number Injured.
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GANGS OF TOUGHS `- From, 1869 onward, logislation was passed in Singapórá almed first at controlling, and then at suppressing, the secret societies, But they have clung tenaciously
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The standing of the societies, even as illegal organisations, has heavily slumped in recent decades.
These officials included such curiously styled gentlemens
Bed Suck, and "Horse Leaders."!
latter being bers appointed to recruit new mem-
The socleties have also dit- carded most of the tecret signs nas emblems of ancinbership,
Today, the number of officials in'a recrot society is unail and roughly corresponds to the num bez of people sharing in the rocicels which the society operates.
When they were first banned The number of "protected" over half a century, ago, they members may run into thousands. remained "respectable" Despite the law, and without among the Chinese and retained the, the active secret societies of fearful ritugi the membership of people of all | caths, the
dcial classes.
In Singapore have been able to Today the societies pro little frighten. many of the city's more than gangs of tours. They small traders and other workers draw their membership almost into paying tribule for "pro- entirely from the uneducated tection"... labouring classes, and their chief activity is extortion.
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BLAMED FOR CRIMÉ Through protection rackets, In the best gangster style, they fatten on coffee shops, they either beat up such often- small stores, hawkers, trishaw ders or daunago
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destroy riders, prostitutes, plekpockets, their property, oplum dens, gambling "houses. The societies conduct their and others.
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Their casiest victims are those who are themselves dut and if the Issue cannot be side the law, such as prostitutes solved at ‚à‚ˆ‚“coffee shap and pickpockets, or people like negotiation", there may be
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Police -say.. that despite fooled" from the results of stringent action in recent years minor transgressions which he against the Cociglica "their racketeers might otherwise re-operations touch a largo propar- bort.
tion of Singapore's population;
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their forticars is in the
The societies are also blained
name. They are bill as colour-cially for a large proportion ful fanciful and typledliy of Singapore's general crime.
Chinese as över.
senior police officer Bilde "We have to keep up wasistunt
Tots the societies would react
The authorities recently, instance, have been following vigilance. If we slackened our the activitibk of such societies New Up WITH
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