Reward of £15,000 Offered For Wanted Malayan Communists
SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. The Malayan Government is Drepared to pay 120,000 Straits dollars (about £15,000 sterling) for information leading to the arrest of 12 wanted Communists. The wanted men are Chinese ant, members of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army. Seven of the wanted men went to London in 1946 with a Malayan Victory Contingent. They served as guerrillas against the Japanese dui ing the occupation. The others include Malaya s testknown Communist pronagandist, Wu Tien Wang, who attended the Empire Communist Congress in London in 1946. He is one of the three leadins Communists-in Malaya. The Second Battalions of the Coldstream and Scots Guards will sail on September 5 for Malaya and uie third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards will sail on Septembei 9. Two Seaforth Highlanders were to-dav sentenced at Johore Bahru to, one year’s rigorous imprisonment for stealing 20 packets of cigarettes from a house near Mersing, Johore, while on guard duty.
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Grey River Argus, 30 August 1948, Page 4
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