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THE JUNGLE BANDIT WHO PLAYED THE MOUTH ORGAN

By COLIN D. EDWARDS

HE 1st Battalion the Cameroninna (Scot-

T

tish Rifles) arrived in Malaya from Hong- kong in April last year. It was actually a return visit for this famous Scottish regi- ment, for the Cameronians were amongst the forces which took over the occupa- tion of Malaya at the time of the Japanese defeat in 1946.

After the civilian soldiers had gone marching home, the regiment served as part of the garrison at Gibraltar, where the 1st Battalion (Cameronians) and the 2nd Battalion (Scottish Rifles)

were

Some Cameronians on patrol in the Northwest Johore jungle.

explorers

As

year-old Rifleman Androw They carried their boots on Paisley of Dumfries had a their backs until they reached deeper motive. Hic cousin the river. All the time they Private Charles Palaley of the were supplied by Seaforth Highlanders, and also from

alr-drops Royal Australian Dumfries lad, was killed in a Force Dakotes and Army Auster bandfi ambush only

a short planes. With the rations, mail, while ago.

and medical supplies

came To get to another company of Australian newspapers. By the Cameronlans, we drove about time they returned many

and

any

of

onc

30 miles through rubber estates them were keen fana of

"Jungly" country, and Australian comfe-strip heroes. arrived Just in time to see a

The

expedition found wounded Malayan special con- desected camp but

no signs of stable being brought in atop recent bandit activity. No one on estate truck. plied with suffered

serious illness, lotex.

apart from

few jungle sores, He was bleeding from many which were attended to by the wounds and was in great pain. medical orderly, Lance-Corporal- He had gone out with some Robert Bruce of Saltcoats, other policemen on an off-duty Ayrshire. They returned safely pig-shooting expedition. They to base with their numbers In- were met by bandils about four tact, the river in its proper miles

place on their maps, and their mission accomplished.

away and four of friends had been shot down.

Dyak Tracker

IMMEDIATELY accurate in

The Spirit

tan-

Sergeant-Major Williams was fult of praise for his men. "Their

morale," he said, "is formation on the incident had excellent, really excellent-even been received, a strong patrol the national servicemen who of Cameronians were

on their have had their service extended way to the scene. With them by six months." One of them, went a Dyak tracker, dressed Rifleman Robert Morton, a bank in the same green uniform as clerk of Bellevue Crescent, Ayr, were amalgamated in 1948, hardened

have sound of the mouth organ, then Also picked up

said: "It's one of the necessary in the camp

the iroops but carrying From the December of thate to suund so dangerously stealthily worked their way were bandit medical kits, con- ornamented tribal sword as well evils, I suppose. I don't mind,

thrilling in their books and towards it, spreading, out for taining amongst other

If it's going to help." year to December 1949 they lectures.

things at his sten-gun. On his throat Few explorers have an attack.

M & B tablets, Atationed

a lamp-design, a British Army was tattoed nt Trieste had to contend, however, with

Then they saw the camp, a

for in- rushed to a well-armed cunning foc.

tommy-cookers, a map showing North Borneo device and were then

Cameronians looked have the soldiers conducting collection of crude huts. Wasting places where the gang Hongkong as part of the the campaign against terrorism no time, they rushed

had proving night-vision. A Chinese ALL the it and stopped

bunt and

civilian civil liaison officer also went extremely fit and

оп duty 40th Infantry ("Bantam")

along to help the patrol com- ned, Malaya

surprised the bandits, many of buses, a bank book holding a

they mander the Intel whom they wounded. However, credit of $8,000, a quantity of

over the Division to strengthen the

sportsmen. language enthusiastic

get as their isolated ter rice, tins of American cocon and dimculty and also to Colony's defences. They re- ligence Onleer, Li Lesile Dow, in the darkness, all the

camps they some form of NAAFI mained until March, when a ing operation being carried out

I drove off to watch a screen- rurists got away.

supplies of a well-known brand much co-operation

as possible have from the local population. Men canteen, a library and a radio. call

for came

reinforce-

Once a Finally giving up the chase, of British tobacco.

like Company.

Starting off the Cameronians examined the

week, an AKC mobile these, in the Government by B

Before proceeding with these and

cinema visits them ments in Malaya

Police to help before

with first light,

with a fairly service, risic Com-

the c Rifleman Monroe of prizes, the patrol burnt down special hatred of the bandits recent film release. In spite of implement the broad mea- pany had surrounded a village can.

and then kept watch while the found the mouth

Mount Pleasant, Edinburgh, the camp and reported to base and their secret supporters.

this, some of their commanders sures of the

anti-bandit police conducted the inhabitants he reports in in good condition. dit gung, possibly depleted, was I was introduced to its C.S.M., bandits than sitting in comfort organ, which by radio that yet another ban- Before leaving that company being cut in the jungle chasing said that they seem to prefer plan evolved by the new one by one past a loc

Jocked police- Amongst the trophies of the on the move looking for a new Warrant Director of Operations, Lt- wagon.

Officer II Thomas Gen. Briggs.

Inside, two surowth action was an enormous enamel hide-out. bundits squinted

Williams, of Saltburn-by-the- slits in the walls and scrutinis Czechoslovakia

drinking ed each face, looking for bau- alts bandit-agents

In

ed

Accompanied by

or

creening.

mug,

pink roses.

made

and

in

RTO

Even

camp. That is the spirit that per- Along the road I met two Sea, Yorkshire, who had only mentes the battallons in Malaya The Cameronians were

bull with

decorated

national serviceinen who had recently returned from a 27-day already at a high state of

Regulars and national whom

A sawn-off signed on for the regular army journey

today. of exploration, re servicemen alike are keeping combat-readiness when they they could identify. During ride and a red star uniform cap but for sightly different connoitring 2 jungle, river the fighting traditions of arrived at Singapore, and it this particular

Rifleman they that were left behind are being reasons.

Edward through uncharted territory. their regiments alive; not least said 'Yes'

but even sent to the Cameronians' rc- McElroy of Manchester only took a short period of only

just With 24 other men, he cut a of them, the 1st Battalion, The one agent arrested

liked contributes gimental museum,

soldier's life, but 10- way through wild, virgin forest. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). jungle-training to fit them to the gradual whittling down for their new role. By of the terrorist organisation. May, they were deployed bandits

One of the two surrendered over the northern districts prisoner of a bandit-gang

had actually been a of Johore state and parts being abducted from his home of the old Straits Settle 18 months before.

A youn ment

Chinese lad of 21, he was forced of Malacca. Their

to cook for the gang as they moved from cump to camp in the jungle. Always he was guarded, until one night а month or two ago when he

arca of responsibility in cludes thousands of acres of rubber estate, but also takes in large stretches of dense jungle and treacherous swampland-favourite hid- ing-spots of the terrorists.

10

Jungle Patrol

saw

J

Is

his chance.

after

and made a

Now his

daring when it comes to attack- He Realised

L

BEN JONSON

AFTER

done Was

to lighten

PLAY 200 YEARS

By R. G. WEETLOCK

the Sadler's Wells version

music.

ducted

REVIVED

Was

given the Gold Medal and there were apposite and witty speeches from Vaughan Williams and Barbirolll. Vaughan Williams's speech

appropriately culogistic, Barbirolll's more ap-

Three of the four works play- Gold by former Medallists Delius, Sibelius. Philharmonic and Dr Vaughan Williams him- commissioned self.

us

ONDON'S autumn opera arber of Seville," Arst given Philharmonic Society for ser- ed were

of the Gold Medal of the Royal Propriately modest in reply. break for it.

season ended at Christ-

in December, was a riot of over- vices to music." Unfortunately, his departure mas with a creditable re production in which Beaumar- The Royal vas not unnoticed and he was víval at Covent Garden of chals and Rossini were hardly

which Society, Despite fired at.

a bullet in Tchaikovsky's "The Queen allowed to speak for themselves, works from such world famous his wrist and another in his

Still, it gave people something he kept going and made of Spades" which has not to argue about!

composera as Beethoven and TOW WHILE the expanded police good

Surrendering his escape,

been produced in Britain

Mendelssohn, Instlluted the Gold There has been so much talk W force and Special Constabu- to

Medal about 90 years ago; since about the police at the first for nearly 40 years. It is a

overproducing Shakes- lary concentrato

on protecting wounds are

that village he reached.

There has always been much then it has been presented to peare and opera recently

"On Producing the estates, towns and villages,

He is gloomy, one might almost spirited and sometimes violent some of the most eminent com- we welcome mending. the Cameronlans have embarked seeing his family again-hts say doleful, opera founded controversy over the merits of posers, conductors, singers and Shakespeare" by Ronald Wat

instrumentalists.

king. (Michael Joseph Ltd., at on a jungle patrol programme parents

contemporary, who had thought him on Pushkin's famous short Shakespeare's

The latest to receive It, Sir 216). This book reviews the probe the vast forests, dead-and he is helping the story of the aged Countess Ben Jonson. Hazlitt thought him And the bandit

is harsh and crabbed, and the ter-

John Barbirolli, could authorities to defeat

of man of various wa

Ways

Shakes. gangs,

putting who has an infallible sys- not relish him however their camps and,

Gestroy

men Italian descent born in London peare on the stage on the one and, when possible, rorists, whom he hates, for

much bring them to battle.

try to show This is memories do not heal like tem at the card tables.

he tried,

hand and who, from very humble be- hand, producers who try to On the other

has not simple, for the bandit is a wounds

Everything

made himself a be at there will always

really admirers ginnings are in English meant and other producers w

who hit-and-run fighter, who

Covent Garden

its of his mountainous

Barbirolli gloom, there were no signs his splendid wealth of languago carcer as a 'cellist, then he con- for himself. It is, in the words began his try to let Shakespeare speak yet of overproduction, Overproduc- and his sense of comedy, even

the Brkish National of one critic, "n learned, stimu- is an clusive THE other surrendered bandit tlon in opera has recently be though it does sometimes incline

Opera, of to the elephantine.

the New York Philhar lating, thorough book Important come a very meaty bone was no youngster. He was a middle-aged

that Chinese.

There is no controversy what- monte Orchestra in place to actors and producers and, in- argue on insight into secret collector

"business" and ever about the production of Toscanini and has now returned cidentally to readers". of funds

It lays it down that Shakes- many tasks,

which the the

are "Bartholomew Fair" which the to take charge of the Halle Or- querillas startling novelties in decorar Old Vic Company is now play- chile in Manchester midway in of stagecraft as he was a poc.. anti-Japanese Cameronions are called upon during the war, he had

chestra, founded by Sir Charles peare was as great as a muster necessary been

popular; others say that these ing in its own newly restored to perform when I visited their persuaded to do this in for

A distract attention from

south of the and

River the last century and for many And that brings us back to the the theatre headquarters

Communist insur-

that Shakespeare- companies during

is after

This *4*~ | music—which

all the Thames.

production, of 1048. Ho соп

orchestras in the world.

was a man of the theatre, whose and on

chiof thing. to do this until he

Festival in 1950,

Queen Elizabeth attended the immortal, imperishable poetry realised what

sults a stage brutal methods

better

than it

the concert at which Sir John was was a kind of divine accident. suited H.Q., near the the Communists were employ- Covent Garden has been much vast Assembly Hall in Edin- of Muar, on Ing against innocent civilians, more moderate in this respect, burgh; the production is more Johore's west const, I met a as

as well as against the small section, under command and

"The Flying Dutchman, of Lieutenant Bill Rodger

one can give the impression of ends. He, too, became like

"Rosenkavaller" and "Figaro"

a greater crowd. "Bartholomew Glasgow, just coming in from a a prisoner of their terrorism have been strong, well-knil and Fair" is not among the best- three-day

patrol, mach but, when he could stand it no free from overlaboration.

known of Jonson's comedles, and of It

through swampland. Jonger, he fled to police post Weary-eyed

Erich Kleber, musical direc- this is its first revival for more with tha and gave himself up.

tor of the Berlin State Opera than 200 years. on their stalns of the jungle.

Lange - Corporal George from 1923 until 1935, who is It is not so much a play as reports and then went back to by the rest of 'B' Company to the

ing unarmed civillan com- munities adversary

but

when

on the scene. "I received

the

troops come

detached

a 300-mile

tour through Johore

Malacca

At battalion

riverside town

and

A

Lon complicated

Some

to

opera

was first seen at the Edinch years reckoned one of the finest réalisation

of politary, to achieve and its productions of operas compart and, in a smaller space.

their

"

as guest conductor at a series of crowd scenes in the

Freen uniform, they made their Combe of Dumfries was elected appear Opera House, obtain- fair which was held in London their company lines for relate the story of "the bandit's ed in "Rosenkavalier," in

meal, long sleep.

par- from Henry It's time in front

and a 100. mouth organ." a shower

It seems that ticular, some really first-class of the Priory of St Bartholomew. they were

out on a three-day playing from the orchestra. The We are among a lively mob of Difficult Treks Patrol

and were following up three ladles, the Marschallin, ballad-singers, beggars, bullies, on a bandit trail with the ald Oktavian and Sophy, were very outpurses and gulls, and the It is dif-croditably sung and acted by characters AMONG them were Riflemen of a Dyak tracker.

rejoice in such James Lindsey of Airdir,

neult

enough keeping on the Sylvia Fisher (from Australia), typically Jonsonian descriptive Lanarkshire, Rifleman Edward trail in daylight, So when Constance Shacklock (from names as Waspe, Leatherhead, Harris of York, Rifleman darkness fell, so did the hopes Britain) and Uta Graf (from Mooncalt, Filcher and Sharkwell William Foote of Pollock, and of 'B' Company.

Dresden).

and Joan Trash. Undoubtedly a scored

one of the liveliest entertain- Robert Campbell of Hamilton, heard a mouth organ. He could gemine artistle triumph at the ments in London. Lanarkshire. The previous hardly bellove

his ears. It begata," produced

of the season with which this patrol

section was playing "Home

the Sweet Its carried out lasted 14 days

Home." deep

His checked that no evening before the Scala, Milan, in the jungle and away from one in his patró had taken a company's production at Covent mony recently

These youngsters regard musical turn, and then quickly Garden and immensely superior Barbiroli was their everyday work the warned the patrol commander. to it in nearly every respect. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eng-

dimeult treks which They listened carefully for the Unfortunately, after this success land's veteran composer,

national serviceman,, Riflemon Suddenly, one of the patrol Sadler's Wells

base.

县属

long,

POP

WHERE 15

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