NOT WORKING FROM MALAYA.
Received ironday. 8.35 p.m. SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. rt is possibU that >Siam is being used as a base. ror Mandestine aerial smuggling to Nortlu- u Australia but aircraft tiro deflnitelv not operating from Malaya, declared a spokesman for tlie Malayan Department of Civil Aviation. lt would be impossible for aircraft to usp abaudoned strips in Alalaya with out the knowledge of the loeal police who are instructed to hold any machine landing 'intjd cleared by the authorities and customs. Most abandoned strips are overgrown and unuseable with no fuel available. The spokesman added it vras possible aircraft were still going tlirough to A.ustralia carrying gold, drugs and jeweis despite :t rigorous customs inspection in Alalaya and elsewhere. Regarding secrct flights, liowever, he Ihought the oniy possibility would be for aircraft to stage througli Indonesia from Datwin to Biani or other areas where a cheek on movements was. not so efifective..
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1948, Page 5
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