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Englishwomen who recently volunteered for welfare work in the Federation of Malaya have already reached the "new villages" where they will teach Chinese pensant familles a better way of life.

The "new villages," where these women will work in pairs, and about 350, estimated 425,000 people. By the end of the year there will be another 40 villages to take the 80,000 men, women and children the authorities in

now

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UT on the cafe ter- races, over lunch tables and in coun- try buses rolling down the roads of France, The there is uneasy talk. French are asking them- selves the disquieting ques- tion: "How many innocent

By STEPHEN COULTER .

A

LACHIE McDONALD

Málaya eşlimate must still be. That's when the present hit- Wor started.Now! resettled, Then, except for the and-run all-important educational and nearly four years later, It 'stli welfare work planned to shield bleeding Malaya and Malayana there people against Communist of all racco-Chinese, Malay,

orderly

been

capital.

propaganda, one of the world's India and European,

transfers of there are fewer unprotected will havo

roving squatter families for Communist gangs to prey upon. Malcolm

Resettlement has seen to that. Macdonald, Com-

The "new missioner-General for the United been established down tho-800- villages" have Kingdom In Southeast Asia,

mile long Malayan peninsula. recently called the scheme "one

There are more than 50 aleng of the largest and potentially the 250 miles of main road from most creative experiments In

the souther Johore Bahru, at human

achieved resettlement

tip of the peninsula, to Inland by any

any Kunla government in

Federal Lumpur, the country at any time."

Immediate objective of the operation is to provide better protection for the hatt million people involved. Until they Passing motorists see the new were transferred from lonely settlements screened by tall, jungle huts to the "new vikagos," barbed-wire fences

on the out- they were easy prey for Cem- high, with aprons

.to side munist guerling hunting food,

make climbing Even Information. recruits and

A more difficult. When the main cuts through the centre of secondary, but equaly important road aim is to give these people, one of the "new villages,"

special con- mostly Chinese, better homes, must stop while better schools and special

stables, usually smiling Malays,

the vehicles check

and pas rérvices than were available to. them in the isolated valleys sengers for illegal weapons from which nearly al of them food that could fall into the have been -transforred.

of Communist guerillas. high fences aren't

own

¡ men are lying in gaol? How be brought to trial, a Toulouse personal vengeance by a woman, innocent as the other two, now Japanese war, the half million

many have already been guillotined or sent to the firing squad for crimes they did not commit?"":

mentally wrong with a system Λε if this

not were

were of justice which allows such enough, further charges

him by au- errors. And how many more, he brought against

A Nimes asks, have been committed? thorities, in Nimes. court found him guilty of col-" laboration and also sentenced NO LICENCE him to death. :go

During

peasant-farmers

one

hands

Tho

eight feet

cara

30

and

and

much to keep people inside as to keep the guerillas outside. Until British Government people of the

In the many districts. village" officers started resettlement back must observe night-ume cur- against them. They were given noin the closing months of 1948. f

constables few. Special compensation for wrongful arrest on little plots of inne they lived kampong (village) guards er or dye years in prison.

didn't

from the inhabitants, and had not leased.

patrol the fences at night, third man, Pierre Rocher, Familles had simply moved to watch the antes all day. Only charged with

vehicles, them and senlikely sites on the fringe of the security-forte

und ienced at the Altat trial to three jungle, bullt dimsy thatche

with people

special curfew years' imprisonment, decided roofed huts, and cleared French tioned han. Somebody has used that he would only prolong his ground for growing vegetables gates must be specially opened. the panics, travel at night when the escape to Switzerland. authorities opened a formal in- my name."

The

time in gaol by appealing. He and raising pigs. The trial broke up in car- quiry into his activities.

When the British returned to charges against him were main--fusion. Gauthier was released, served his full three years, was

Malaya at the

end of the tained, and though he could not He believes he was the victim of freed and maintaing he is as

Few of the "new villages" 24 Mequatters," court sentenced him to death But the French man in the street cleared,

they were are very imposing. Usually the is shocked. He is spying that

named, the investigation, quickly

were well

public buildings are rooted in in his absence.

there must be something funda-

settled. The squatters werp aluminium sheels, shiny in the Recher produced evidence that hard-working,

inoffensive un but cool below, while most and no he was on military service at

thatched with dwellings are really bothered about the time of the crime and that Pens

them attap, the palm-leaves so popu on the night of the hold-up he Cities as distant as Singapore lar There is talk of grave

was confined to barracks

throughout rural Malaya. itself were relying upon the But miles away.

now have the villagers squatters for much of their fresh, opportunities for a better f scandale and hushing up."

A barracks officer confirmed vegetables, pork and poultry. than they could have expected There is starting evidence

official

The squatter familles this, testifying from

had from the lonely hata of carelessness in Judicial proceedings. In the last For five years Gauthier stay- there is the case

Raymond Sonn. Four years. records that on the night of cleared back the lingle at the they lived before.

the crime Rocher answered the edge of rubber estates and coun

to help educate the try villages. few months so many ter- ed in Switzerland, knowing he

They had burned

the sick children, nurso

and could never return to France. ago in the streets of Forbach a

fallang, Malaya's Q rible errors of justice have But in 1999 the French au- men lorry knocked down and barracks roll call at 8 pm, and

p.m. and at 8 a.m. the follow-the the fatally injured a man named.

ing day.

coarse grass, from lonely river generally supervise the welfare "new villagers" that come to light that the thorities at last persuaded

No tests were made to see if mountain range, and turned the Cross

valleys running into the central English women, trained Red said they had seen Raymond Frenchman's confidence in Swiss to extradite him, Gauthier Fillpozi-and drove on, Witnesses

Basle and

workers, Sonn, then only 16 years old; at Racher could have climbed the bottimland into flourishing mar

are already, the legal machinery of his was arrested in

brought home,

the wheel. Raymond had no high barracks wall. The roll ket gardens. By the middle a reaching Malaya, General Sir

Gerald Templer, country is badly shaken.

new. High driving licence, but his father. call was disregarded.

1048, some of the more advanced Commissioner: In the Federation Hardly can the Frenchman FORGED

contractor, owned a green lorry. Now Rocher, who works in a

of the nine State administra- open his morning paper nowa.

Police found the right hand re factory, is having 22 de- tons on the Malayan peninsula, of Malays, has asked Australia days without seeing another casc

wing dea.cd. Green paint

ducted from his pay each week were considering how best to for other volunteers to help in

the new villages." -aman imprisoned without

for the 100 fine imposed On TE was thrown into gol and from the victim's coat was com-

grant the squatters titles to the piled up

addition to the prison their small plots of land, proof, sentences

on I informed that the first death pared with the paint on the Sonn him in false evidence.. He thinks of the hundreds of "executions" sentence had been commuted to lorry and declared to be the same. sentence. He has already pald

Ave years' hard labour, but that In addition, Raymond Sonn £150, and summary judgments of the when he had starved this term he admitted that he had passed the Liberation days and asks: "What Is French justice coming would have to face trial for con- firmation of the second death to?"

sentenze.

SHOCKERS

years.

of

A

15

The Minister of Justice, M.

Long

where

The work won't be easy for rhy of them, but it should be salistying It will be a fight against superstition and ignor- Then, overnight, the

halt ance.. scene of the accident half an hour Martinaud Deplat, has been

There will be always be an before it happened. Since Ray asked: It two of the

supposed

million squatters became a, mond was a minor, his father was hold-up men, Eck and San-

Commu- ordered to pay a big dine, to hand sonnens, have been shown in major and pressing problem for element of risk. The

the Federal Government, based nist guerillas have recruited Gauthier appealed. For three over several thousand pounds nocent, what about Rocher?

from country coflex- on Kuala Lumpur, as well as for youths years he remained in prison damages to the victim's wife and

each of the State administra shops-local equivalent of the COME of the cases are shock- serving his five-year sentence, make a heavy monthly payment "CONFESSIONS”

tions. It was to the isolated, English public house and quite was brought into to M. Flipozi's child,

number of their Chinese -eta. The latest one to Recently he

M. Sonn senior has paid....

unpretected squatter huts that a incredible scene

the Communist guerillas, them clansmen now resettled in the shake pubile opinion is that of court-and an

followed.

and gone on paying for four THESE

HESE are some of the recent celves nearly all Chinese, went "new villages" still try secretly Charles Gauthier.

CASES that have. caused

for food and other support after to help these outlaws by tossing Gauthier, now aged 45, was

Judges, prosecutor and police Recently he succeeded in per- Frenchmen to become uneasy June 1948, when they arst took rice and other almost priceless mator salesman in Western

that every sprap of sunding police to check the facts

over the state of Justice in their to the jungle in open, armed supplies over the barbed-wire France when war broke out. At found

Police later arrested "evidence" against him had been again. the German invasion of 1940, be fled to Sete, on the Mediter forged. Carefully preserved testi Marcel Kleren, a young soldier, only Beatings-up by police defiance of Britain and British fence of "new villages wing

have been shown to be an backed administration.

the nights are darkest. ranean coast, where he found monies were shown to be worth- who has confessed, that he was everyday practice.

less and based on inventions, driving another green lorry, and

"Confersions" are forced by work as a commercial traveller Witnesses named in the prosecu that it was he who knocked down third degree methods. Sanson-

tion's documents said: "We have and killed M. Filipozl. "When

nens was questioned for eight was charged, I On the Liberation, however, never seen this man. We have saw that Sonn

days without a break. Even he was suddenly arrested and never brought any charges kept quict," he said.

are slapped. charged with collaboration with against him. Nobody has ever And Frenchmen are asking women prisoners the Germans. Police quoted taken evidenes from us."

themselves: "If It happened to M. Martinaud-Deplat has had to witnesses who alleged seeing

me, what would be my chances issue orders to police inter- regators that no violence must Gauthier at Bete and, Nimes in Commissaire Andro Calvel, of of proving my innocence?"

persons. the uniform of a Vichy secret Nimes police, whose name figured Recently two men, Jean Eck, he used on accused perso

Plenty

Frenchmen of police agent ormed with A on Gauthier's Interrogation 35, and Raymond Sansonnens, 48,

"I never who had waited dive years in gnoi wondering it, after all, there is tommy gun.

papers, told the court:

anything to do Gauthier vigorously protested had

with in a confusion of trial, re-trial not a great deal of truth in the a. famous never ques and appeal, were tried for a third cynical phrase of his innocence, and managed to Gauthier. I have

time on a charge of armed hold crime reporter, George London: up and found not guilty, There "The only miscarriages of jus- Was not a solid pleco of evidence tice in France are acquittals."

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was commander of U.S. our Foll friend General Forces in the China theatre from 1044 to 1946, Later ho was chitt Albert Coady Wedemeyer, a of staff to Generni. Chiang Kai- breezy 55-year-old and a shek, and then made a survey Commander of the Order of of China and rea for Presi

tent Truman. the Bath.

Ho announces in Washington -wiib Tatt smiling at his side that he is assuming the chair manship of a "Naticcial Citizens for Taft committee.

And he reveals that among tho..... "aumerous prominent cllizens" who have unged -- him

His subsequent report and were kept recommendations secret for years by the Admini Etration to the tune of charges from tho' Opposition' that they were suppressed for political purposes.

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