CRIME’ WAVE IN MALAYA
SECRET SOCIETY BLAMED
SINGAPORE. June 17. “An exceedingly powerful secret society is behind the increasing lawlessness in northern Malaya.” says the “Straits Times.” “One aim of this movement is to impede and prevent the re-establishment of the European community. The crime situation is very grave, and the danger is spreading to the south.” The paper urges the authorities to make wider use of their powers to banish “undesirables,” even without a trial.
Recent reports from Penang describe midnight meetings in the hills attended by 60,000 members of the secret society. Hundreds of them have been questioned by the police and military without result. “A Court sentenced 38 Indians to three months’ rigorous imprisonment for unlawful assembly on Saturday night,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Singapore. “The men were arrested in the dock area by the police, who feared a recurrence of Friday’s riots, when two were killed and 19 were wounded. All those arrested were carrying knives, clubs, iron rods, and hooks.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 8
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