Lt. Gen. Percival.
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VOLUNTEERS.
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Para.
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90
"No liability to military service was imposed upon the Asiatic population.
There Was great difficulty in filling the Chinese sub-units of the existing Volunteer organisations. This was in no way due to lack of available material or to lack of effort on the part of the military authorities. It was due chiefly to the lack of unity and of forceful lealership which existed among the Chinese population".
Air Chief Marshal Sir R. Brooke-Popham.
15
69
29
128
"Many (of the Chinese) had no particular roots in Malaya. There was difficulty in filling the Chinese Companies of the Volunteers up to establishment, nor could we get a sufficient number of Chinese motor rivers. This may have been partly the fault of the British, and there was not sufficient contact between the British
and the leading men of the Chinese community.
"The Sarawak Rangers proved quite unreliable."
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Air Vice Marshal Sir P. Maltby.
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92-93
"The enthusiasm of the unit (Malayan Volunteer Air Force) was most marked and it made excellent progress. An elementary Flying Training School had been established at Kallang in 1940 from local resources: instructors and technical personnel were obtained from units stationed in Malaya, and from the M.V.A.F., who club aircraft were made available for its use. It lid excellent work. A number of pilots were trained by it, some subsequently serving in other theatres of war and some in Malaya.