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...wing commander of the R.A.F. in Malaya brought Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons the news: her airman husband, Flight Lieut. D. R. Parsons, had just been killed in a bombing strike on the Malayan Communists...
...Ending attacks on Indo-China and Malaya...
...William Hinde, director of military operations in Kenya. With Lyttelton's approval, he ordered 10,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, recruited to defend their homes, to be armed with shotguns. Yet as Lyttelton plainly saw, stamping out the Mau Mau would require more than shotguns. The problem, as in Malaya, is to assure the majority of natives of the government's concern for their welfare, and to protect them against the Mau Mau. Snapped General Sir Cameron Nicholson: "We need a great sense of urgency at all levels. I have not found...
...nicknamed "Shorty," was No. 2 man in the Communist terror forces in Malaya. Until rewards were abolished three months ago by the British, the price on Ah Kuk's head-$66,000-was second only to that offered for Party Secretary General Chin Peng ($83,000). The three Chinese, after turning in Ah Kuk's head, obligingly demonstrated how they had killed him. Surprising him had been simple, they explained. They were Shorty Kuk's personal bodyguards...
Married. The Sultan of Pahang, 48; and Habsah Binte Lebai Mat, 22, amusement-park dancing girl; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The sports-loving Sultan, bound by Moslem law which limits a man to only four wives at a time, divorced wife No. 4 before marrying pretty Habsah...