Evening star., 1950-08-24
Tigers Tactics Used
By GuerriIIas 10 Push
KremIin' S Campaign
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guard was killed. Most of the
mail was destroyed in a fire."
"The body of a Sakai, who hac
been murdered in Perak by tn,
guerrillas, was found yesterday il
a river" CThe Sakai, a peaceful
backward jungle people, have beer
loyal to the British.)
"An attempt was made to mur.
der the European manager of 6
tin dredging company in Pahant
last night"
-Four Chinese are being helc
as suspects in the recent burn.
ing of a rubber refinery in Singa.
pore which did $2,OOO,000 worth
of damage"
BY terrorism of this kind, the
bandits have killed roughly AZ
white civilians, 20 white police.
men and ITO Tommies and at least
TOO oriental supporters.
Shattering to Nerves.
Small figures, true, but con-
slider the nerve shattering con-
sequences of such attacks ano
you'll understand why large Sec
tions of Malaga are paralyzed
today.
To seek out and kill or capture
the $500 ESTIMATED assassins)
10000 Tommies, 10000 police and
$500 Malay soldiers daily comb
the jungle, and units of the Royal
fleet sweep adjacent waters.
The British are also manhunt-
ing. But picking at the green
jungle is like seeking a bedbug
in a mountain of mattresses. Still,
they've managed to trap and kill
1000 outlaws, capture that many
more and hang more than 100.
(Tommy is not as eager to fin
ish off the foe as you might think.
If a patrol kills bandit it has to
bring him back to town for iden-
tif1cation. And it's back-breaking
business to lug body over noun
tain trails where hours are meas
ured in yards, not miles.)
Other Side of Picture.
Here is today's report of gov
ernment successes:
Security forces killed two Chi
nese bandits during a jungle pa
troll near Ipoh area. Another es-
capped after throwing a grenade,
which failed to explode, at the
patrol"
Police raided a jungle camp
near Negri Sembilan today. A
quantity of Communist documents
were recovered. Two Chinese men
and one woman were arrested as
bandits" (They'll hang.)
"a unit of Royal Marines killed
two bandits in the Kuala Kesong
area. Three members of the pa
troll were wounded by a bandit
hidden in the roots of a tree"
"A Chinese bandit was shot
dead while attempting to murder
a rubber planter on an estate in
East Johore."
Three bandits were shot dur
ing raid on a sawmiH. In South
Johore."
Help for Red Chinese.
These attempts at slaughter and
are sapping the ability
of the people to resist if and
when China's Red Gen. Mao
gets his Moscow-stamped travel
orders to march on Singapore.
1t is a fifth column actively
at work.
So far it has failed to incite
popular revolution. In any election
now I'm sure the jungle jumpers
would do as well as an anti-heer
bill in Milwaukee.
By personal bravery and prodi-
gous effort, the flow of rubber
and tin has kept the great harbor
of Singapore busy.
This is not only vital to Malaga.
but to the economy of the free
west, for this peninsula is Eng
lands largest dollar Garner.
Stain Is Winning.
Still: Joe Stain is winning the
opening skirmish of the battle for
Singapore, and meanwhile, British
troops which could be used in Ko-
rea are pinned down here as
thoroughly as if they were crouch
ing in a fox-hole.
The manhunt costs the British
almost $250,000 daily.
Englishmen and Malayans are
dying here.
Americans and Koreans are
dying south of the 38th.
French and IndochineSe are dy-
ing outside besieged Saigon.
Burmese are dying on the road
to Mandalay.
FilipinoS are dying in the rice
paddles of Leyte, Luzon and Sa-
mar.
In not one of these five "little"
Oriental wars does a single Rus
sian endanger his skin. The main
man to be hunted. wisely enough,
isn't here.
Yet the Soviet Union is the in
spiration, if not the guiding genius,
OF these wars-by-remote control.
Hopkins Tops Contor