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To the authorities in Britain they presented a problem which demanded delicate handling, for it was obvious that many of these Germans might be useful to the Allied cause, but among them were a few who might be agents of the enemy. . A solution was found by the appointment of a larger number of tribunals which were instructed to deal as quietly as possible with the foreigners whose

May 6, 1940.

MALAYA UNDER THE RULE OF THE NAZIS A NIGHTMARE

The article below was published in the "Straits Times" and is re-published in the "Tolegraph" with acknowledgments to our contem- porary in Singapore. "Hongkong” could well be substituted for "Malaya” in the text.

I found myself walking through the streets of Singapore, but there VAN D curious atmosphere about the place. It did not seem at all like the old Singapore I used to, drugged know. I Ind heavy, feeling and for a moment I

I wonder ed whether the Impression of from strangeness did not ariso causes within

from me and not changes without. But then I be- gun to notice things that were too unmistakable to be due to hailu- cination. For one thing all the signs over shops and on office doors that used to be in English were in German now-words

an long snakes in thick, squ

squat cursive-style lettering for another there was plague of swastikas over the city, on flugs, on plaquer,

on armlets, which struck upon

my eye with their sharp outlines. I stared about me incredulously.

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There were Chinese, Indians, and Mulays as there had always been, but they seemed to have lost the carefree air that I remembered. They went about furtively, glancing often

to left and right. They did not gather in groups to laugh and chat but walked in twos or threes and hurriedly as if they feared that they might be intercepted. Perhaps the pollee had something to do with 17 There were many more police I had ever seen but they were not the old, Malay mata-matas and

Sildis. They had

disappeared. In their place there were Euro- prang in brown uniforms and oli carrying automatic rifles with their fingers playing at the triggers. Their faces wore a frown. From time to time other European and African soldiers in unfamiliar un- forms marched past In detachments carrying rißes. S.A. men, may be!

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One detachment had a band play- Ing the "Horst Weasel Song" which broke weirdly across the muffled sounds of the city.

Impatient to learn the secret of the mystery I approached a middle- aged Chinese who looked like a businessman intending to ask him to explain things to me, but when he saw me he edged away and I realized that he was anxious to 'avoid

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Just the contact with Europeans. one of the European JUA

uniform policemen in the strange po stepped up to me and speaking sharply in German asked me for my identity card. My German was but I understood him rather

rusty and felt automatically in my pocket. To my surprise I found a card there with my photograph on it and mass of particulars concerning me and my movements und an inter- section of official stamps. The policeman looked at it carefully and then handed it back to me with a curt nod. I saw him approach others, Asiaties. Included, in the same way and then I realized that no one could be at large without un identity card.

My experiences were disconnect- ed and often confused but there- were extremely clear and lucid in-- tervals, more intense and disturb. ing than I can describe. I found myself at a book-stall looking for the familiar "Straits 110 Times," "Free

Press," or "Tribune," doubt, for the solution of the my- stery

of what had happened to Singapore. But I could and none of them. All the newspapers were in German and I picked up a "Singaporische Beobachter" paying for it with a nickel Ave pfennig plece I found in my pocket. edged away into a corner to look nt it.

My German, as I say, was rusty but I could get the gist of the news and the articles, (How grotesque the heavy black type looked against the well-known background of Road-Berchtesgadenstrasse

Battery cases they were to examine, sending suspicious cases to interament camps, imposing mild restric- tions on others, and leaving the remainder free to do what they liked.

were

Of the 62,000 Germans or Austrians whose cases were reported on before January 15, only 120 were interned, 5,416 were placed in the second [category, while 42,607

released from all restrictions.

The last named are free to take up any occupation they like, and nearly 1,000 have actually joined the British lighting forces. It is one of the advantages possessed by the Allies that they have on their side large numbers of well- informed and highly intelligent Germans who understand condi- tions in Germany and the paychology

the German people, and are now ready and anxious to put their knowledge at the disposal of Britain and France. In expelling Jews and making their country unsafe for other Gormans who have dis- agreed with the regime, the Nazia have made a present to their opponents of some of Gor- many's best intellects.

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was the name I caught sight of on wall). I was astonished at the tone of the paper so different from the catholle outlook and interest of the old press of Singapore. A new struggle was to come, this time with America, it seemed, and the paper was striving to lash up hatred of that country and of its people. The Americans, it appeared were trying to encircle the Great German Em- pire and to deny it its Lebensraum in the wide prairies of the Middle West, and to deprive it of access to the cotton flelds of Georgia and Carolina so essential for Greater German clothes and Greater Ger- man bombs. The USA. was an effele democracy controlled by Jews, negroes, and Chleage gangs- ters

etcall the old stuff but even more violent and rabid. There was some Mulayan news but it read strangely. A demonstra- tion

of Hitler Youth was to

to bo held in Penung, a conscript labour battalion was to be reviewed the Goeringplatz in Singapore.

Three hundred Chinese, hundred

and eighty Indians, and seventy Mainya had been sent to the concentration camps at Sega- mat, Kajang, and Pulau Jerejak for crimes against the Germann state. I I noticed, too, that a depart sune ment called the State Tin and Rubber Control seemed to own all the mines and estates and there were figures showing the exports to Germany which absorbed near- ly all the outout. There was also an official notice by the Stadisami stating that workers who did not produce theft quota or who falled to put in an average of twelve hours a day for six days a weak would be punished by being de prived of their ration cards.

All food was rationed, I gathered. I

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sw a reference too to the Kovnlg- Marshal Goering Ten Year Plan of Self-Sumclency- for Malasian Indła (Good God, I thought, had they got But the Netherlands Indies too!) my dizzy hend failed to piece it all together to make complete sense.

ing for Now, I was looking Vernacular press. Perhaps there i I asked u find a clue. should Malay where I could Het Warta Malaya."He looked me suspl-

at clously for 錢 moment and then said, "Lama suda berkunj! tuan!” Il lind been

course suppressed. Ot thad. There could be no room for a poper advocating Malayan na- tionalism. 1 asked for the "Sin Chew Jit Poh," the "Union Times," the "Sin Kuto Min Jit Poh." or

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They had all disappeared. All -1 could get was a single sheet written in very bad Chinese which spoke of the duty of the Chinese to serve the Greater Germany. There was not a word in this paper the Tai Tak Kwok Yat Po or the German Chinese Gazette it was

called- about

the Sino-Japanese War which I had seen from 2

small item เก the "Singaporische Beobachter" was, still going on. Chinese nationalism, though, was referred to in a leading article as

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dangerous heresy which was adhered to only among the criminal classes of the Chinese in Malaysian Indla.

My recollection, as I have said, Is discontinuous and imperfect, but

I do remember that I began to feel a little more resigned to this monstrous world though mer curious than ever to know what had happened to the land I had lived 'In. I managed to talk to a number of the people who seemed dreadfully afraid of the police and would

speak only when they were sure that they were unobserved. able to piece together But was the things they told me and gain a general impression of the shape of things that had come to pass.

There were no longer any Malay States or Malay rulers. They had been abolished. The Germans did not recognize the principle of pro- tectorates. The whole of Malaya and the Netherlands Indies had become single German colony under a Governor-General in Singapore, The Legislative, Feder- al, and State Councils had gone. All the powers of government were vested in the Eastern Branch of the Nazi Party, itself responsible to the Nazi Party of Germany. Arising in-Kelantan-had-been-ruthlessly suppressed and. over 30,000 Malays had been killed. Education been standardized under a Nazi All the Malay, Chin- programme.

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ese, and Indian schools had been taken over by the government. German was taught in all the schools but only so much as would understand the enable pupils to commands of their overseers or to the tools of their trade. There were a few middle schools in which a higher standard was taught but these were merely factories for producing clerks and the text- books were full of the glories of Nazlism and the glories of the Aryan Race and the highest func- tion of the graduates, they said, was to serve their German masters without question. One Indlan told me how he had been flogged for being in possession of D pamphlet of the legal Congress Party,

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my recollection becomes vague again. The dull chloroformed feeling returned to me. The yell lifted for a second or two at a time and I seemed to be travelling in train. The carriage was labelled 4 "Aryans Only" and I saw Asiatics Another being herded into trucks in part of the train. I heard the guttural shouts of a German major who was swelling at the neck and cursing an Asiatic official of some sort. It took me back to Germany when I was prisoner-of-war, When my recollection cleared I found myself in surroundings that were again familiar. I

streets of Kunia Lumpur.

and the building/zed the att But it was changed an un

natural Kunla

Lumpur.

It seemed Ilmbo

a city of condemned souls,

of handles Petaller Street

which had

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on

so full of animu- tlon was like a Chinese cemetery on All Soul's Day. There were shell holes and bullet marks the buildings which I could not explain. Gangs of cooltes passed through the streets marching under Overseers The overacers carried whips, There was a

curfew at dusk and the old bright lights of my time shone no more,

Now I was treading the stair- cone of the old Supreme Court. A trial was going on. A German Waa charged with listening-in to the American wireless. He was sen- tenced to six years penni servitude. -But I could see no Asiatica any- where except the court ushors' and Interpreters for witnesses. I met on educated looking Indian in the corridor.

“Where are the Anfatics?” I asked· him in English, "Where are the

Chinese and Indian lawyers?"

He gazed at inė in astonishment. 1 repeated by question, and then he, seeing that I was genuinely ignorant and that we were alone. put his anger to ls Hips and sold

whisper.

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"They have been abolished. Surely you know that? Where have

you cou

I was a low- come from? yer once with u big practice-under- the English of course. Now I am an interpreter.on forty marks u roonth: It is either that or concentration camp at Kajan. But haven't you rend Mein Kampf'? Don't you know the passage about native lawyers and semi-opes?"

He smiled bitterly;

"Is that it?" I exclalined. "But where are the courts for Asiatica?"

They

have another court. Where the Magistrate's Courts used to be. But there is no code of Inw, no lawyers to argue.

ue. Everything is deckied by the German magia- trate. The punishment is heavy fines or flogging-sometimes worse. Even for

trivial prisons

and the comences. The camps are full. Life is ghastly.

Rations you can't live on. There is nothing you could would had the I buy in the shops you

The money, first and last. But," he added gritting his teeth and a savage light coming into his eyes. "Their time will come. The Americans will blockade Malaya and we shall risc"

brutalities. The very head of the administration could be guilty, In 1007, as the result of Reichstag protesis, Dr. Kari Pelers, then Im- perial Commissioner in German, East Africa, was brought before n

warly court in Germany on a

Riven

for visiting

of counts. Evidence wds. of terrorism, plunder, the flogging and chaining of women and children, forced concubinage, and murder. The most atrocious of his crimes was the hanging of a native

for slcaling: ostensibly youth, elgarettes,

really

concubines. One Peters'a native of them had fled for protection to neighbouring chief, and was also hanged after having been flogged day after day until her back re- sembled chopped meat,' 'Paters was dianleed the service-not. for the crimen he had committed, but to his for giving false reports to

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superiors. Subsequently granted his pension, and a statue. in his honour was erected at Dar-es-Salaam. Here Hitler has described him as a model, if stern, administrator. *A model, if stern. administrator'

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the government of Herr kamer In the Cameroons, the Akwa chlefs pelitioned to the Relchstag in 1905 against the ex- cesalve flogging and ill-treatment of their people, and were promptly arrested and sentenced to long terms of Imprisonment for their audacity. (Have you ever heard of in Malaya who dared to petition, the Secretary of State?). The matter was taken up in the Itelchstag, the sentences on the chiefs quashed, and the whole administration of the Colony inquired into, with the result that the Governor was found! guilty of administrative luxity,' lined £50, and retired.

that happening to persons Ten Year Plan comes

A policeman was coming along the corrider. My Indian friend turned quickly on his heel. Shapes became indistinct again, I felt 1 wanted to cry out like a man who was being suffocated and then, thank God, I woke up!

What a marvellous relief was to find myself in my bed, bathed though I was

as in a cold sweat. went to the verandah of the house In which I was staying and there

was the Union Juck still

flying over Government House. A mata-mata

Was on his best down below at the

could see comer.

the British warships in the harbour. Once again. Thank God! It had been nothing but a ghastly nightmare!

Now a few of you who have rend my nightmare may be inclined to think that it is a mere fantasy full of exaggerations and stretchings of possibility. Mere propagandu fact. Now listen to this.

The Right Honourable L. one-lime Secretary Amery,

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S. of

of State for the Colonies, tells us that no special criminal code for natives of German colonies was ever worked out. In 1912 the Ger- inan Reichstag Deputy, Dr. Muejler, said:

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"Our civil und military adminis- tration of justice is simply indefen- sible....With regard to

native Justico and administration there exists ut incredible uncertainty the powers of the ad- concerning ministrative authorities, One judge uses the German Penal Code -without-further ado, another does not use the Penul Code at all.... In short our criminal proceedings are in condition which leaves the native entirely without rights."

In 1900 another Deputy, Herr Storz, had sald:

"Nothing shows the difference in the position as to the rights of na- German and English tives in colonics so much as the

the administra- tion of justice; the English solemn, Carnest, entirely hedged in by guarantees of justice: of the Ger man courts everything without

form, and even if the intention to deal out justice be there...

..every- thing surrounded with the appear- ance of force and arbitrariness.

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Herr Storz went on to point out that whercas English District Com- missioners could decide only minor matters, German officials without Judicial training could decide on the life and death of natives sub- ject

the confirmation of the only to Governor who would invariably go by his subordinate's report.

Sir Hugh Clifford, afterwards, Governor of the Straits Settle- ments, in his official report Togoland says that the public was excluded from all German courts, every case being practically tried in camera. German magistrates were bound by no criminal code, far less by any code of criminal procedure, in cases where natives were concerned. The only criminal code in force in Togoland was ox- presly

applicable to Europeans "x- clusively. In practice this meant that any native, no matter how in- поселе of an intention to give offence or how unconscious he might be of having done so was liable to be flagged or otherwise punished by almost any German

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official whom he had the mlafor-. tune to displease.

The statements of Deputies like Judge Roeren, Herr Bebel, and others in the Reichstag debates confirmed this, as well as the terri- bie severity of the punishment in- fleted. Deaths caused by floggings were frequent. Not only men, but.

children were liable women and

to flogging. One of the revolts in the Cameroon was caused by Deputy-Governor Kleist ordering

the flogging of twenty women. wives of native soldiers for belag Jazy. The native soldiery and native police, indeed, were gener- ally given a dangerously privileged position in order to attach them to their rulers. On the other hand the native chicts themselves were continually fogged.

Do not imagine that it was mere- ly underlings who committed these

And there are many other cases: which I have no time to mention. In my nightmare I imagined the suppression by the Nazis of a rising in Kelantan. Is this fancy or exaggeration too? Listen.

In German South-West Africa there, was a tribe of natives cal

called the Hereros.

It was the, settled policy of the Germans to

to compel them to work as hired labourers. upon the lands they had hereto- Inre owned. To begin with they

allotted cattle were

These cattle reserves," wrote Herr Kari Dove, "are an obstacle to the development

the of economie country, for it is without doubt owing to this reason that so few of the Hereros enter the service of while the Deutsche

Sudrikanische Zeitung, the Africa Times, German South West Afri stated that "the country must be Inhabited by white Therefore the natives must appear,

colonists:

dis or rather put themselves at the disposal of the whites, or re- tire Into the reserves set apart for them."

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In the end, the government de- elded that they must disappear. and with characteristic German causing thoroughness set about them to disappear. In the Herero of 1901-1000 General Wor Trotha

deliberately pursued policy of extirpation.

the driving whole tribe into the Kalahari De-

At the..

end of the struggle. only 15,000 Hereros were left out. of a

a population of 80,000.

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In 1905 the Maji-Maji rising in East Afrlen led to the killing of by the ride and by starvation of 120,000 natives.

Before

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Von Trotha be- gan is of massacre he Issued

. "The proclamation. Hereros nation must leave the country. If the people do it nol I will compel them with the 'big. tube Within the country every Herero, with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, will be shot."

Now I have not been raking: through the records" to and facts discreditable to the German ad- ministration. No raking was re- quired. The instances of ruth- lessness and cruelty stand out in

nccount any

of the

Germon colonization in Africa. "It was impossible in Africa to get on without cruelty," said Herr Dove.

All this was before the last war, In those

days there was some de- Humane mocracy in Germany, men could criticize: questions could be

the asked by Deputies in Reichstag: Germany was sensitive

world

opinion. Since then. Blood and Iron have come back

to

into their own. The Nazis make it plain beyond all doubt that the only business of colonies is to serve the arbitrary will of the ruling: race.

The following words of Hit- ler have been quoted by His Ex- cellency the Governor.

They cannot too often be brought to the notice of those who might forget. the Nazi gospel and the intention. of the Nazis if they were victori

OLES.

"One hears from time to

Bays Herr Hitler in "Mellianth

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"that a negro has become a low- yer, teacher, tenor or the like. This is a sin against all reason. It is criminal lunacy to train born semi-ape to become a lawyer. It is a sin against the

Eternal Creator to train Hotitatots and Kaffes to intellectun: professions." And we need not imagine that Herr Hitler regards Asiatics in n much more favourable light than he does negroes. All who are not. Aryans, the Superior Race, ate in- ferlor, and all who are not Euro- prons, even if not semi-apes, are. no more than sub-men. We need have no doubt as to what would happen to Malaya under Nazi rule. The Fuchrer's scholarship is con- fined to the study of invective.. cliledhery, and the use of a trowel

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