THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1863
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
End Of Terrorism in Malaya
Leaves Country Firm Legacy
Bv PATRICK J. KILLEN
United Press International
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
(UPI) The year was 1948. It
was the year when Communist
terrorists opened up a war to
make Malaya a "people's
republic.
On June 16 of that year, on a
mhher estate in northern Mala
ya, three young Chinese rode
up on bicycles to the office of
Arlhur Walker. 50, a British
planter.
"Tabak, Tuan" ("Salutations,
Sir") one of them said, ana
shot Walker through the head.
Thr-v rode awav without touch
ing hundreds of dollars in the
office sate.
That same day they killed
two other Britons and two Chi
nese anti-Communists, 'ihe siay
ings forced an uncertain , Brit
ish Malayan government to de
clare an "emergency," a nice
word for what was already in
progress a dirty jungle war.
The emergency was supposed
to be over in time for Christ
mas. The officer commanding
the Malayan district, Maj. Gen.
Charles Boucher, calmly told
the legislative council:
"I can tell you this is by far
the easiest problem I have ever
tackled. In spite of the appal
ling country and ease with
which he can hide, the enemy is
far weaker in technique and
courage then either the Greek
or Indian Red."
His statement was one of
many wild miscalculations.
The emergency lasted 12
years. It endured through t h e
Korean War, continued while
one war ended and another be
gan in Viet Nam. By the time
the emergency was cancelled
on July 31, 19G0, more than
11,000 persons had been killed.
The Malayan guerilla war
had many similarities to the
present fighting in Viet Nam. It
was a hit and run affair in the
countryside with terrorism a
prime weapon.
The United States has a large
body of military "advisors" in
Viet Nam, but the British had
fighting troops in Malaya and
the authority to make any
changes, set any military policy
they wished.
The British and later the Ma
layan government won, but they
never did crush or smash or
obliterate the Communists.
Rather, they starved and iso
lated them to death. I hey beat
them through rewards, intelli-
cence reports, psychological
warfare, new villages and
finally by gelling the vast
majority of the Malayan pcoplo
on mar side
It was a slow, sordid
business.
The first few years of jungle
war were a national nightmare.
Terrorists shot up police sta
tions, slashed rubber trees,
murdered planters. Either out
of sympathy or fear, Malayan
villagers smuggled food to the
Terrorists and generally refused
to cooperate with security
forces.
Line of DrfwiMV
Planters and miners formed
(he first line of defense. They
trained young Malayans into a
special constabulary, ringed
their estates, factories, dredges
with barbed wire. Arc lights
shone at night and booby traps
were rigged to keep the I or
rorists away. But everything
outside those perimeters was a
jungle of terrorism
The years 1950 to 1951 were
the crisis years. The war was in
doubt and the Terrorists were
staging their biggest raids.
In May, 1950, Lt. Gen. Sir
Harold Briggs, came out of re
tirement to become military di
r;ctor of operations, He was a
veteran of the African desert
and the Burma campaign.
Under Briggs, the British
pushed forward with a new
concept the new villages or
strategic hamlets in which
farmers were pulled together
into communities and both
guarded and placed under
guard. He ordered a food control
program designed to starve the
Terrorists from the jungles.
Briggs developed the idea of
war by committees in whicn
the military, police and civilians
from the capital down to the
smaller settlements participated
in the fight. The joint planning
and exchanges of information
gave everyone a stake in the
fight,
The resettlement olan was by
far the most ambitious. Before
it was over, an estimated half
million persons, nearly all Chi
nese squatters, were persuaded,
cajoled or forced into 400 "new
villages. They previously had
provided the terrorists with a
supply line of food and other
equipment. Under the resettle
ment, that could be halted.
In two years the face of Ma
laya was changed with new
villages appearing on the maps
where nothing had been before.
Briggs drew up the blueprint
for victory but no one seemed to
know it with the possible excep
tion of the Communist high
command. He departed in 1951,
broken man, and died n
months later.
Moral Sank
A month before Briggs left,
Malayan morale sunk to its
lowest level. On Oct. 7. 1961,
Terrorists killed Sir Henry
Gurncy, the British High Com
missioner to Malaya on a road
near the mountain resort oi
Frascr's Hill, 60 miles from the
sweaty capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Winston uuircniii personally
picked General Sir Gerald Tern
pier, an old line military man,
to take command in Malaya,
both as higher commissioner
and supreme commander o(
armed forces.
Templer began by pulling to.
gefher the worried military
forces. He made lightning lours.
He sent congratulatory lele-
grams to units which killed Tor-
orisls. He sent angry rockets to
those which did not.
He put an entire town of 20,
000 on 22-hour curfew because
they did not cooperate with the
armed forces against Terror-1
isls. He closed all the schools,
put everyone on one-half rice
rations. Within a month, the
lown was free of Terrorist at
tack. Propaganda methods were in
tensified. Intelligence informa
tion was increased by use of a
post office box number in Kuala
Lumpur where informers could
send letters. Rewards were in
flated $84,000 on the head of
guerilla leader Chin Peng.
"Voice aircraft" made their
appearance. These wore slow
moving planes which flew over
the jungles and beamed loud
speakers at the Terrorists. The
messages listed guerilla's com
rades who were killed or had
sur.-endercd the day before.
Templer spent three days and
finally memorized a message
in Mandarin for use by the
planes:
'This is General Templer
speaking to all armed members
of the Malayan Communist
Party. You need not be afraid
and can surrender. This is my
personal pledge to you. You will
not be ill-treated."
Malayan newspapers began
running pictures of ex-Terrorists
dining on suckling pig and toast
ing each other with brandy to
show how well surrendered
guerillas were treated.
One of Templer's best de
cisions was the introduction of
"white areas," regions which
had been cleared of T rorists
and where harsh restrictions
could be lifted.
Terrorism Control
By the time Templer left In
June, 1954, overt terrorism was
under control.
The elections brought to pow
er the Alliance Party of Tengku
Abdul Rahman. The party com
bined Malays, Chinese and In
dians into one political group
for the first time. It was dedi
cated to ending the emergency
and one of its first acts was in
granting an amnesty.
Th Tengku gained a promise
that the Reds would lay down
their arms when Malaya won
its independence. The promise
was never kept; but it was the
begir-:ng of the end.
Independence came on Aug.
31, 1957, and lt did much to
finally win over the majority
of the people to the govern
ment. The nation now belonged
to the Malayans Chinese,
Malays and Indians and it was
now their war to win.
Communists began surrender
ing in large groups.
Emergency Hurts
The factors which finally
ended the emergency were
these:
Independence and the am
nesty.
Massive deployment oi
troops in selected areas.
Intensive intelligence activi
ties. Psychological warfare cam
paigns. Rigid controls which denied
food to Ihe Communists.
Massive resettlement and
establishment of "new villages."
Today the Malayian govern
ment reports there are about
500 Terrorists hiding in Ihe deep
jungles along t h e northern
border with Thailand. They sel
dom do more than steal pigs.
The emergency is little more
than a grim memory to most
Malayans. No one ever men
tions il. Perhaps its firmest
legacy is the fact Hint Malaya
and its successor. Malaysia, re
mains one of the staunchest
anti-Communist nations in the
world.
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WHAT IS LAW?
The English language uses
one word, "law," to express two
distinct ideas. In many foreign
languages these two meanings
are expressed by two different
words.
When we speak of the "rule
of law," we are thinking of the
whole body of law, under which
we live together in a civilized
society.
In Latin the word law in its
broad concept is "jus," but for
a spccitic statute it is "lex,
from which our word "law" is
derived. In French it is "droit"
and "loi"; in Spanish, "dere
cho" and "ley."
The French word for law is
identical with the world f o r :
"right." This is not a coinci
dence. The whole purpose of the
law is to define and enforce
our rights. We are forbidden to
speed on the highway so that
others may enjoy their right to
travel Ihe same road in safety.
Laws specifying how wills and
deeds shall be made have been
adopted for Ihe benefit of I h e
people.
Our rights arc in three broad
groups. First, specific legal
rights; thousands of these have
been established through t h e
years as the law strives to keep
itself responsive to the changing
needs of the people it serves.
Second, fundamental rights
such as the right to vote, to
hear arms and to participate
in government. j
And third, there are "basic
rights" so basic that they be
long to all men everywhere in ,
this country. Call them God-given
rights, if you will rights
guaranteed under law and nam
ed in the Declaration of Inde
pendence life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
White City Post
Office Remodeled
Remodeling of the White City
Post Office lias been completed
in time for the Christmas mail
load, Acting Medford Post
master Al Bradford reported In
day. New fixtures have been in
stalled and Ihe box section ex
panded to serve 500 patrons.
Patrons of Ihe post office, who
have boxes, will now be able to
enter the building at any time
and pick up their mail. Prior
In the remodeling the lobby was
closed when the post oflice win
dows were closed for .service.
Norman Jahn is the supcrin
lendenl in charge at Ihe White
City branch.
The remodeling project was
carried owl by Ratzcr Construct-on
Co.. low bidder on the con
Iracl. The Bal.er bid of Slw5
including moving the post office
from the old quarters, remodel
ing Ihe new location, formerly
the Town and Country Shop,
and installing the new box sec
lion and equipment.
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WHEN FRIENDS DROP-IN, serve
TOM & JERRY
The
Holiday
Hospitality
l VlCri'mtC !Unin .;,m.
ppjimpn from f'RS and ARC were ,J
filming visitors to Lee Oswald's
grave in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Fort Worth, Texas, this week.
Few visitors were passing by.
During one hour period only six
passed by, mostly in autos tak
ing a quick glance. (UPI)
IT'S YOUR LAW
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gon State Bar and is not intend
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having a legal problem should
consult an attorney.
Youfi Charged With
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A 15 jear - old Meiifoi ri area
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Goods store Sunday night, the
sheriff's office said
Deputies arrested the youth
Tuesday on the charge. He ad
mitted verbally to the burglary
and was still being questioned.
He also admitted nine car thefts
in Medford and the rest of the
county, sheriff's deputies said.
A number of guns were taken
from Ihe store, but deputies
have no! determined how manv.
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