MALAY RUNS AMOK

Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1947, Page 5

MALAY RUNS AMOK

— Reeeived Friday, 0.50 p.m. SINGAPORE, Oet. 10. Fight people were killed and twelve wounded wlien a Malav ran amok with a four-inch bladed poeket knife on a train between Singapore and KuaJalumpar last night, Among the killed was a British sergeant. Two British of other ranks were critically injured. A Chinese girl is reported inissing. The yfalay eseaped and the poliee surrounded the area wliere the kiliings oceurred. The kiliings Ijegan when the Malav entered a restaurant car and attaekeu four British soldiers, a Chinese and a Malav who were eating tliere. The British sergeant was killed and the two British other ranks critically injurecl when they grappled with the Malav who then leaped through a window of the moving train, haeked down a Chinese in a rubber plantation and attaeked tlie occupants of a communal living house. He is reported to have killed a Chinese woman, girl and boy and wounded ten more Chinese. Ineidents wherein Malays go suddenl.v mad and attaek people in frenzy for blood, are not uncommon. A Malay eonstable in Singapore last month killed a passerby and wounded seven others in a similar incident.