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Singapore Guards Against Murder and Night Raids by Groups of Communist Terrorists Editor's note: United Preii Vice President Frank H. Bartholomew is a veteran observer of the Pacific. As a reporter in World War II. he kept pace with Gen. Douxlai MacArthur's northward advance gainst the Jap anese. He did front-line reporting in Korea. In China, his airplane lifted from one end of the runway at Shanghai as Communist forces over ran the other. The following dispatch is the result of a re-visit to Singa pore, one of the early targets of the Japanese in World War II, and a present-day target of the Communists.) By FRANK BARTHOLOMEW United Press Correspondent Johore Baru (U.R) This is the outpost city that guards Singapore against a second in vasion from the north, and the pressure against it is growing. Armored personnel . carriers speed along the beautiful wa terfront highway under the shad ow of the Sultan's palace. Bomb ing aircraft on their leisurely afternoon bombing runs from Singapore to the Red-infested jungles to the north are in the sky above. On the north, a barb it ed wire fence, illuminated at 'night, gives the city a measure of protection against night raids and murder. Just to the south; on the island of Singapore, mov ing police blocks stop and ex amine traffic. Like Singapore, Johore is un der declaration of emergency and is an actual police state. Its responsibility is double to pro tect itself against the growing external menace of Communists and to protect the great key city of Southeast Asia, Singa pore. Red Menace Grows Southward from Johore Baru runs the half mile long cause way to Singapore, which is the lifeline of the 1,200,000 people in the British bastion city. The causeway carries the highway, the railroad and the pipeline through which most of Singa pore's water supply flows. It was over this causeway that the Japanese marched only a dozen short years ago to capture by 'surprise from the rear a city whose fixed gun impfacements and fixed defensive thinking were pointed southward toward a. challenge from the open sea. : Despite the immigration and . customs guards at both ends and the troop carriers traversing the causeway itself, and despite the r.aval establishment on the Sin gapore island side to the east, the causeway is as vulnerable today as it has ever been. The situation faced by Singa pore, and by the brood of nine Malay sultans in the states un der Singapore's protection, is actually more acute today than it was in the opening days of the war with Japan, because sub stantial segments of the enemy are already within the defenses and are hard at work to accom plish the downfall of the sul tanates and the key city. Ia the city of Singapore alone, 21 suspected Communist killers were arrested recently in a span of four days. An arsenal of fire arms and hand grenades was captured. In one day, two Sin gapore harbor police were slain from ambush by Communists. At Selang New Village and Labis 20 miles from here, raiders cut the barbed wire and stole shot guns from the post of the Home Guard itself. Operations against the Com munist terrorists are directed from Kuala Lumpur. They are strict and they are reasonably effective against the external enemy. Some of. the require ments are that the rubber plan tation workers must be out of the jungles and into their pro tective compounds sometimes by as early as two p.m., always well in advance of sundown. After curfew, the bombers blast the jungle up and down the long corridor of the penin sula on a spot-bombing basis, seldom seeing targets but bomb ing just to make the jungle areas not completely safe for the Com munists. After the curfew patrol parties on foot will shoot at any thing that moves. Fifth Column Active The internal enemies are far more difficult to gvard against, the Red agents wha mix with the city's teeming thousands dur ing the day and strike out in terror raids at night. Uprisings in the schools of Sin gapore, skillfully fermented by the Reds, are giving the authori ties increasing trouble. Eight students of the University of Malaya go to trial in the First Criminal District Court in Singa pore on August 10, charged with seditious publication. They are importing special defense coun sel from London. The British , themselves are convinced that they can hold LOWERING TEMPERATURE of girl with ice, Washington, D. C. surgeons save her from probable death by closing large hole in her heart. Lower body temperature was essential before delicate surgery could be performed on child. (International Soundphoto) I nones IF THE DUTCH BOY HAD BEEN A GIANT . . . REALLY SUPER ... HE MIGHT NEVER HAVE PLUGGED THE HOLE IN THE DIKE WITH HIS BIG PINKIES. 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THE EASY E IS THE HANDY SIZE PACKAGE FOR YOU TO SHOP IN. the city of Singapore militarily, but are admittedly concerned at the effect upon the population of the nine Malay states separat ing their island from the Asian mainland, of the continuous Communist military and politi cal successes in Indochina. -Incidents Increase The internal and external Communist pressures against Singapore and Johore intensified almost instantly when the French surrendered 1,600 square miles of the southern sector of the Red River delta and aban doned 2,000,000 Vietnamese to the invaders. Jungle terrorists incidents in creased in Johore. School uprisings continued in Singapore itself. In one incident students pelted the police with a fusillade of stones. In a second and more prolonged affair, po lice had to resort to fire hoses to break up a marching throng of hundreds demonstrating be tween North Canal Road and South Bridge Road and attempt ing to surround the Fifth Police Court where seven students are on trial for draft evasion. To reinforce the water hose treat ment police reserves had to be called out. Police assert the dem onstrations to be the work of professional Communists. Owners of Freighter Settle Damage Suit Astoria U.PJ The owners of the freighter Joseph Freuer, which crashed into a Columbia River Packers Association dock and warehouse here last May, have settled a damage suit out oi court. A company spokesman said the settlement was approxim ately $100,000. The CRPA has sued in Portland federal court for the same amount in damages to the structures and $50,000 for damage to the contents of the building. The suit was dismissed with prejudice, following the com promise settlement. Four Portladers Held On Narcotics Charges Portland (U.R) Four men were held in Portland city jail today on narcotics charges fol lowing an intensive police roundup of persons connected with dope peddling. Chief of Police Jim Purcell said a "continued relentless drive" - will be carried out against narcotics peddlers. Those arrested on charges of violating federal narcotics laws by selling heroin were Pio Re daloso Riego, 50, a fisherman, Paul Lawrence Payton, 21, and L. B. McGowan, 32, a musician. David Earl Burgess, 34, was arrested for possession of heroin. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. - Friday, November S. 1S34 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Smog Changes Color Of Man's Necktie Los Angeles (U.R) Uni versity of Southern California scientists studied with intense scrutiny today a fickle tie be longing to down cast engineering student James bnarpless. The distressed student said that when he left home for school Thursday his tie was a bright coral color. 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