DYAK HEADHUNTERS TO HUNT MALAY TERRORISTS
Received Fridav, 31.50 p.m. LONDON, August 13. Reuter's Singapore correspondent states that a secornl batcli of Dyak triliesnien, traditional headhunters oi Borneo, liave been flown to Malava and gomg int.o action with the British arii'v against the terrorisis i'iie lirst party arrived at Kuala Lumpur last Monday. Some have long black • ai: to their waists and elongated ears. > 11- worlyd with the Allied guerrilla ' *i . i-i'S beluud Ihe Japanese lines in B'otn'o. The Dyaks carricd their traditional headhunting knives decorated with tufls of human liair and birds' fcatliers. Ai other plane will shortlv bring frort. /-t aifiwak Dyaks with blowpipes through ' uiiii-h tliey slioot poison-tipped arrow- ' silentiv, paral.vsing their prt-y. A detachment of the British Army uhicli attacked a hideout at Temerloh i» l'ahang State today killed two terroriets and wounded one.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1948, Page 5
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