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"If she thinks a Government defeat on the meat business could mean collecting

this week's ration in a handcart, she's had it!”

MALAYA'S

BEING

A

T the beginning of December, the opera- tional situation in Malaya

showed a

London Express Servic

Ghost army of

the Khyber Pass

PESHAWAR.

F any romance remains

I in warfare,

By G. WARD PRICE

the while- and crescent

flag

sarbe uniforms,

the

in warfare, it is on the today. "Every mile of this rond so near: is the Pakistan Army

Frontier, has boon

pald for in British-in-spirit-and appearance to the

the Pakistan British-the now the boundary of Pakis- blood," sald

colonel by my side as we drove the old "apit and polish,"

neat whitewashed cantonments, tan.

through the Khyber Pass,

the comfortable officers' mess Though

that, the British built, with sil- of that.

over the fireplace. on The and foxhunting pictures the walls, and Punch and the Illus

London Neves lying on

"These are the finest infantry: the in the world," said one of the

ren,

Some of the incat chapters is British military history have

green been written among these bar- Pakiglan now files over the ver cups

steep, milk chocolate great forts of Jamrud mountains. Thousands of for Landi Kotal that guard mer

British soldiers, from Win Khyber, the British have left trated ston Churchill downwards, now their

signature there till the the table. leading peaceful lives at home, solid rock crumbles. Carved on have nostalgle memories of that these mountain walls are

400 miles o! "dirt-coloured badges of the British regiments last British brigadiers attached: sweet damn-all" of territory that passed between them. equipment."

that lies between Quetta Feshawar.

and

of

to them, "All they need 5.

:

A feeble barrier.

Shaped like the tombstones the Ermy, vanished 21 memorials range in date from, the mid-18th century to 1947- the year. when the Brick BETWEEN Pakistan and Rus the handed over the foreign de

fence and internal peaco

You have to search hard to And a

British soldier there to day.

A few officers are still on training duties with Pakistan Army or Air Force mostly packing up 29 contriels expire.

the

But they may be back some day.

For when you see tank-traps of dragon's teeth" being re- newed in the dark defiles of the Khyber Pass you naturally inquire the reason. "Russia"

is the ansWCT.

sla lies only the decrepit State of Afghanistan-a feable

un-

Indie, with its first consequence barrier that would vanish over- a mutual massacre of Moslems night if Russia ever chose to and Hindus that cost more than come this way, which is

likely when her Chinese allies have a so much easier approach 1,000,000 dead.

to the Indian sub-continent through Burma.

History in stone COUNTED a dozen regiments crests on a single cliff-face of the Cheshires, the Argril and

Highlanders,

The menacing shadow "the bear that walks like a

moment

with Russ arrives

Sutherland

The actual frontier is guarded by the Khyber Rifles, a smart regiment of irregular troops under control of the Politica: Agent, and by a local police the force called khassadors,

the.

man" has bedevilled this bit of South Wales Borderers,

Fasex Regiment-an Army List

But the Khyber is only the Asia for 100 years.

of in stone.

tail-wagging end of the frontier;, "Whenever the collision

Yet if you drove through the the bark and bite are at the ..." wrote the Viceroy of In- Khyber today with your eyes other extremity in Waziristan shut you might think they were The British conquered all that dia, Lord Lytion, in 1878.

and still there, for English words of country in the days when troops So millions of pounds thousands of British lives were command ring out in the tar moved on foot, and the tribes- men with their rifles were as spent in occupying, fortifying, row pass, and you may hear

Now modern opening up and railway-track- the pipes playing "Auld Lang well armed as their invaders. ing this wild and sterile coun- Syne."

Even in outward

has reduced fashion

these mountain try as a defence against the

resemblance, looters and feudiste to no more samo danger that threatens it there is

than a nuisance level. They snipe at motor-cars, not with a view to hitting them, but to mairrtain their o to the £7,000,000 annual subsidy that the Pakistan Government pays the 700,000 clan,men 1. keep them quiet.

o close

TERRORISTS

STARVED OUT

By Colin D. Edwards

a new

ing, screening, and

following

up the trails of bandit gangs. A further 3,500 men are being recruited for this kind of work, and the police strength 03 a whole is being increased from 15,000 to 25,000.

Guard,

that

material

Plunder town

O there is no access by road to Raznak, the Samous fortified post on a plateau amid high mountains that the British built about 30 years ago.

is

It is now a ghost town, unin- habited except by a handful of khassadars, and plundered of all the baths, stoves, windows, and Internal Attings the British left behind

when the seven the Government of remain closed except for a few to split up, years,

battalions stationed there slight trend of improve- gangs of bandits

are Malaya is now adopting sterner specified hours each day.

marched out for the last time.. of the ment. Two or three weeks and many of thely raids

Indication Another

The Malayan Home

I flew over it this morning before Christmas, there was staged with the sole purpose of measures. Towns in Perak and

getting food.

Kedah, which have consistently Government's determination to which was organised so

was no sign of life, and but a sudden sharp decrease in

their communl. Anti-Bandit could defend the Briggs

red for the In Perak and Kelantan, small refused to help the authorities put all its resources into moit people living in the villages at a height of about 60ft. There corrugated iron the number of incidents

roofs it resembled one of those under

Plan a success is the declston ties against bandit attacks, has Com- groups of terrorists foraging for defeat the local terrorists, have ing by the initiated

af now grown

in to a strength of

settlements left made to pay colice to mobilise the manpower

trained by the military All males between 30,000 men,

Britain after the legions had munists, the level of their food have been killed or cap- been convicted

tured by angry villagers, who law ond

have Police and armed with shot

as been called back to Italy. Like activity has remained the refused to be robbed at pistol tive fines. The heaviest penal- Malaya.

ty fell on the town of Pusing, the ages of 18 and 24

for

of the serious In view to register

guns.

it thethem, the been ordered

situation,

quadrilateral in which was described by same over the New Year. point.

with broad, straight also Home Guard is

being shape, Among the terrorists killed it Magistrate as the worst town service in the Police or in the International

#treats intersectioning at right trained as a civil defence force, On the other hand, the the last two months have been a. Halaya. There have been resettlement, corps

Only about 20,000 will ac-

so that in the event of a war angles. Army and police have main- several prominent Communista, 14 recorded murders in Pusing Two Malayan bandit lenders, since June 1948. The murderers tained the pressure of their. Abdul Manan and Hither bin are still at large, because no tually be called up. They will they can take care of air rald

precautions. operations with telling ef- Rafl, were killed by security hours ot fect. In November and De- forces within a few cember, Communist casual- each other. In Kuala Lumpur ties were about 60 percent the Federal capital, two im- of the Com- portant members higher than the average for munist underground movement the previous six months. the Min Yuen-were arrested

recently. During January, the num, ber of bandits killed and captured has fallen, but this was due to the severe flood- ing which has affected the whole country and restricted ONE of the many bandits who activities. Nevertheless, the that before deserting his gang he January figure of bandit had killed Ah Hol, a gang loader casualties was encouraging- who was one of the Big Five in ly higher than that pertain the Selangor

last. ing autumn.

summer

Gang Leader

WE

surrendered recently claimed

State Commitice and of the Malayan Communist party.

STOP

SECURITY

The number of bandits sur- Govern- rendering under the Casualties on the government's lenient terms is still not due to the fact ment side have remained high, largely

that the gang leaders keep a

control on thel light. In two and a half

very ruthless years' fighting in Malaya, a men and leave no one in doubt they are suspected of any and 500 policemen have deviationism. Nevertheless, A been killed, compared to number of gang members have more than 1,600 bandits broken away and given theme dlled. The civilian popula- selves up to the police recently. Rifles) man a road block during a screening operation tion

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Two Measures

so hungry.

Two soldiers of the 1st Cameronians (Scottish

in North Johore,

one in Pusing will give infor- either serve for two years in mation to the Police.

or

As soon as this messure was

thousands

announced,

One Chinesa woman bandit was found, weak from lack of

the regular police force, in the food beside the bodies of Ave

Police Jungle companies or in ¤ Last September, companions who had starved to

school the special constabulary, death. She told the police that teacher was murdered by com- they will be directed to help she had not tasted rice for two munists in front of his class with the administration of the months. She had been living off

and before

the eyes of a crowd resettlement programme. They taplern shoots and jungle leaves, of townspeople. No one would have the right to appeal against THE general decline in Com-

The recent heavy foods in give information to the Police: their call-up. munist activity over the last

Malaya forced many a bandit In March 1949, the mother of three or Cour months can

to the higher a detective was beaten to death

and cut to

to piecos. A few weeks largely be credited to the effec-gang to move

parts of the mountains, tiveness of two measures.. Ona is the establishment of village Despite awful flying conditions, ago, a Government resettlement

Federation applied for certif Home Guard Defence Units. The AP and Australian planes officer was murdered in day. Chinese youths throughout the

out every day to blast light in the centre of Pusing. other

measure is the

has away at the mountain tops and No one came forward with any cates of admission, which will act as passports to take them ment programme, which

to China. As well as getting moved about 100,000 squatter joined with RNZAF aircraft in information.

dropping parachute-borne sup- Three people have been kid- the men needed for the cam- farmers from areas where they

Gurkha and

napped from Pusing; bandia, paign against Communist ter- of the plies to British, were at the mercy

Malay troops on the ground.

have walked openly into the rorlan, the call-up is achieving terrorists. Their resettimment

town to get money and food; the elimination of those in safer areas has robbed the

tog the is loyal elements who are only bound Communists of one of their main

บ trict

dowa D7 witling to enjoy the benoits of of food supply Bources

The

Communiris: hond grebades

living

ir Malaya but who are priority

it areas of Johore,

to defend Sembilan, Malacca and South

nu- against West Pahang will have com- THE Army sud Police did cars were ambushod: Commu-

and Boga were What these young then do not pleted their resettlement tasks not let up on their operations mist posters by the first of

against the terrorists, bringing stuck up around the town; realises that when they got Identity cards to China, they will be in even their total of bandits killed, hundreds of

Help Refused

47

in

were burnt

རྞ་

سونك

were thrown into abopa; motor note movements

One of the reasons why the during the two months up to were stolen. Such a town was greater danger of being called 'duties, in security forces have licen able January 18, to 58. In the same Puning and no one gave any up-not for police

area information to the Police to Malaya but for, battle service to gain more contacts with the period, Gurkhas in boe bandits is because of the effects of Fahang "discovered and help them, catch the murderers in the chilly wastes of Korea..

destroyed

OFET 100 bandit and the uraonista, jo

The Jungle complies, whicti

of the food denial measures,

which included not nnly the camps. resettlement of isolated com munities but also the guarding

In

road. This is forcing the larger

Hi! The people of Pusing, in the mention, are police units who gmcrgincy state of Perak, have to pay a do more, or lows the same kind two and a half the shope-in; the town mat ing-that in patrolling, ambizi-

of foodstuffs being mored by situation, which bas how lasted. One of Birate $40,000, and all of work all the troops are dow

Big-Step

At night bands like the Fakir of Ipi's men creep down from their mountain caves to carry Coff a bit more of the barbed- wire, or another door or two to use as firewood, After close on 100 years of bold and bene- portal days have endod volent British rule the old im-

What will

O development in the

NE of the most Important

happen now? Well, the adoption sphere has been by the Federal Legislative so long as the British-trained officers and generalion of Council of a Government pro civilian officials

are there the posal to appoint a Cabineficial old impulse towards efficiency

both official Council

and

members, who will be may continue but graft is responsible for the running of like those of the Indian Civil of spreading, and new traditions groups of government depart ments-in other words, acting Service and the British Army will in India cannot be replaced ex- This plan Ministers. give Malayans the experience pept by gradual growth The the future of Pakistan is now in of high responsibility in

big the hands of her own sons. All Admbilsiration, and is a step forward in Malaya's pro- that Britain can do is to wish gress towards self-government. them well,

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