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"FERRET FORCE” IN MALAYA HOUNDS REDS

Singapore, October 5.

Britain has unveiled her secret weapon in the wor

against Malayan Communist insurgents-

"Forret Forco.”

It is composed of teams of trained jungle-fighters, Malays, Gurkhas and British. They are of- ficered by behind-the-lines veterans of Burma and Malaya, ex-Chindits from Wingate's Raiders and war-time leaders of Force 136 the British equivalent of the American Office of Strategic Services.

Guiding them through the

Four civilians-all former Forer Jungle are Dyaks flown over 130 offteers-conceived the iden from the Bornea Jungles, of "Ferret Force" to root out the

HK-Manila. Air Route

Manila, October 8. Hongkong Airways under- took - Successful

Survey fight

Hongkong from

to Manila yesterday, prepara- tory to the establishment of regular service which it is understood, will Alert on weekly bania.

The

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THE CHINA-MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, -1948.

Burma Govt CZECH RULERS CRUSH

Successes

Rangoon, October 5. Burmese Government suc cesses against Communist-led Insurgents on several fronts were tonight announced by an! official communique. -

The communique claimed that Government forces on Sunday reoccupied the Insurgent hood- quarters Al Kuyan, 30 miles northeast of Rangoon, and today relook Tuntable. 24 mfles to the northwest of Rangoon,

One hundred Insurgents were killed in A clash at Pakokku. southwest of Mandalay, and another eight killed at Meiktila, to the south of Mandainy. According to the communique. Commia. Burme e Special

was

to

the aloner

reported reach an understanding have

USO

Company will DC.J but plans four-engined,craft in service later.-United Press.

Reds from the jungle hideouts.. where a few short years ago They took their name from the forefathers WeTe thewrasel-like carnivore which is

used to hunt rate-Red rats, the **** Army explained.

their most dreaded head-hunters in Asia.

Chinese interpreters go along, for almost all Malagie's estimanter 5,000 Red unsurgente aen Clinete.

Picked mon from the most elite British units the Fat Eust were sent to Port Dickson. super-secret Jungle

The Malayan revolutionaries | where

unit in the hungles Query training school was started,

40 kn during the wor,

when they operated us the Mu- laven People's Anti-Japanese |

Army.

selves

Today they call them- "Mubaran People's

Anti-British Army."

Terror As Weapon

Sage they hunchest their 1- interl effort Pse Malaya is

Rico Dict

Trainees mostly were jungle - Wise to begin with. But they learned Commando tactics auri roved their ability to live in the wilds for weeks with rice a their diet,

The first Ferret

ta

Jate May, 1946, The Reds have to go into the jungle. The exact used ferror an fhew chief weapon. | mumber in each unit is still a

They have shut down unarmed nullitary secret. civiliana in cold-blood! almost

dally.

They were an instani zuccess. the Jungle Almost in vur

invariably they The Heds, retiring

fount after when

terrorist tetren!

they encounter

attacks, Armort

Their objects there was no rest for them. Fer- seem to be to disrupt production rets tracked them night and day. of

arml mattrewn key Sometimes there were clashes in strategie war materials the Wei badly in these days of re-

uriname:

Skilled

|

The

The

The

with

:Page 6

POLITICAL OPPOSITION LEE THEATRE TAI PING

Prague, October 5.

Czechoslovakia's Communist-dominated · Parlia

ment will take up discussions on Wednesday on measures for the "defence of the People's Democratic Republic,” which will mako_af-' most any form of political opposition criminal offence.

It

0

was expected that the law will be enacted by a unanimous vote before adjournment on Wed- nesday and the purge already underway may be intensified.

powers

false.Unilec

The chief provision of the 6. "Spreading alarming new! have law is the institution of a new likely to cause unrest," eight ciny,

10 six monitis. In the event of state court with streamlined the Karen insurgent elementa in procedure and with extraordin-news story the sentence may b Loikaw, capital of the Korenni

to hold secret Preg.

doubled in the ary Stafe, and in Taunggyi, Shan States. --Renter.

Fessions in important cases. A wide crackdown against "reac- tionaries" has been proceeding | for two weeks and alrendy more than 100 persons have been sentenced and 11 is ported that hundreds more are under arrest.

Italian Journals Oust Directors

Rome, October 5. threatened strike of journalists last weak brought the first test of Italy's nino-month-old press law. journalists' protest against alleged violation of the law has forced six Rome newspapers to change their directors, while a seventh daily suspended publication rather than submit to to the low that directors must be certified journalists.

dispute began in the 'serlified members of the Journs

¡lists' Union, Zincang was not. the Risorgimento

The Journalists' Union rafled

of

which the Communists lost men. Inffices Al other times the Reds stayed ahead of their will of the wist [Liberale, Liberal Party news

by moving paper, and had its roots in a daily and going on the defensive. purely financial question.

in Jungle-fighting, Leserates--bus the Reds seemned to melt away when regular troops went after

them. They retreated to the tumbled jungle wilds, secure in the knowledge that they were afe from outsidera.

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1.10 p.m. News. Weather Regwork and

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2.00 p.m.-Glow Down.

4.00 p.m. - Programine. Sommary.

6,01 pm "Of the Sh·LF**

sive.

only

Intelligence reports Indicate Communist morale has aluma. ed since the Perreta carried the war Into the Jungle. While the Army refuses to way how many Ferret unity are in the field, it Is a considerable number and mord mora are being trained every day.

So successful are they that Bri Ft Ruthorities have advanced by weeks the time when they believe the small-scale Red re volt will be smashed completely and law will return to the jungle, as well as the rich in and rub- ber rds of Malaya-Associated Press.

Concessions To Chinese Schools

Bangkok, October 6.

The Siamese Government

6.30 pm."Must Time A Progenitume) has agreed to make two con-

be Pupile of King George V Bchool

(

€30 p.m.-.limlo s

thehestra.

YORUS).

196 pm. "Stelses

7,36 pm 1

Wings"

Heure France(

(Br 2.7.

-World med tfor News Candon Reby t

-The Baterally Prostratume: “pretat. Moderne", Nr. 1. Introdue Joey Talk I Nir Alexander Cores Saunders, Staedlem. Course lat of the Sell Selene" Series (ANCISI, 1.3 pm --Coneoptre Menet: Chere

the Fin with the Ieneim Philor

5.5

in Mor... Edwin Flacking

Peuple Ordlistra

mMusic from

9. A

The Fallen.

Playa *Weosted on Way. MAN** ** Jack Storbord 18tube. Eplande g **Mr Marrbwo Pretend for the $1. Sage Club by Jock Shepcherst,

5. Merande bu 17 Stara"

FORAS).

20.01 pm World and Homo Nowe (Last-

dan Behr,

15,15 pm-Weather Bryort.

Baner to T... leath and 17. Orchestra (BUGTA),

ressions to Chinese schools at the insistence of the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Hslch. Pao-.

sao,

The Bangkok Post reports the concessions NTC:

1. Chinese schools will be al-

lowed to teach the Chinese lan- guge for 10 hours a week in each of the four years of a Chi- nese primary school,

be

2. Chinese teathers will allowed to tench for two years without having first to pass un examination in the Siamese lan- Runge. They will, however, have 10 all for the language examina- tion aller, two years.

The concessions are consider. ed important ones to China, Airca under the Private Schools Act only five hours a week can be given to study of a foreign lenguago. Soine Chinese

schools have heen closed for a year for violal-

g this inw and for employing teachers who have not passed

10,4 puntention f Britain Sinmese examinations. The new

"then". A Talk by Howard ruling would, in effect, waive the

Marshall London Kolay).

harshest portions

11.00 pm-Badlo New* Reel London Associated Press.

Relay).

11.13. p.m.--Weather

Down,

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Landon, October 5.. fences prescribed for offences In-| J. Arthur Rank, Britain': clude:

biggest film magnate, salt

1. "The misusing

of religious yesterday he had decided t office to Influence political e in

production

increase the

a direction unfavourable to the British Olms because he fear- democratic system",

month ed Hollywood companies might

'o one year.

one

purposely or thr

or through negligence,"

three months to two years.

agoln ban exports to Britain.

af Hollywood films shown

He sat the Increased vulpu 2. "Agitation against the Re-

ensure that never less public or Its People's Democratic wat system before two or more per will be playing in our theatres.

than 50

per cent of British films sons or permitting such agitation

The American Motion Picture Producers' Association last year three months to three years.

film ckports સ su panded all "Insulting Allied state Britain after the imposition of

on its representatives or symbols."ax of 75 per cent on the earning

"Defaming the President's Britain. an emergency meeting and voted picture or otherwise insulting the Mr. Hank sald he was sulieifler

days to cight strike "until all Roman dailles Republic,"

sixthere can be no peace or real have as responsible directors pre months; if done in public three under tanding between the Amer fessional journalists as the law months to two years.

lear industry and the Brill' 8. "Insulting the Parliament or industry until our films receive prescribes and until the directors

the Risorgimento members of the Cabinet for their reasonable playing time in th most of Italy's smaller Party or and editors of

three months US which they are not doing to gans, the Risorgimento had failed Liberaie are satiated in their de-political activity,"

day.-Associated Press, to meet salaries for the month of mands for what is due them."

andi three weeks f The Rome Typographical Union August September. The editorial staff de- voted solidarity with the Journa manded payment and, when re- lists, with the

support used. struck.

In financial difentiles, as

at the paper's printers.

director

are

Late that night, the Govern- ment forestalled a strike by na- suring the Union that pressurr

The responsible the paper, Vittorio enlisted tho support evening newspaper. d'italis, to put out Zincone did the песоважгу Risorgimento resumed publi. editorial work and the Risorg! cation with a recognised journa; miento appeared on schedule. Hat an

responsible director." Without stirring any publicity Journalists immediately..raked or attention, two other : news the question" of law. They said papers changed their directorm a Zinçone, publishing his name as These papers were the Christian" responsible director, had violated Democrat Party's 11 Popolo and the press law, which states that the evening Independent Glarnulo' all editerlal workers must bel d'Italia-Unlied Press.

o wou be brought to bear on 'all

www. Zincone newspapers for observance of the of the law. Al the same time, Risorgi- Giornale mento's owners agreed to asitle his paper the salary issue.

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