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Malayan Communists GOVERNMENT OFFERS BIG PRICE (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright). (Rec. 11.0) SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. . ■ The Malayan Government is prepared 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, and members of the Malayan People’s antiJapanese Army. Seven of the wanted men went to London in 1946 with the Malayan victory contingent. They served as guerillas against the Japanese during the occupation. The others include Malaya’s best-known Communist; propagandist, Wu Tien Wang, who at tended the Empire Communist Congress in London in 1946. He is one ot three leading Communists in Malaya. Two Seaforth Highlanders were today sentenced at Johore Bahru to one year’s rigorous imprisonment for stealing 20 packets of cigarettes from a house near Mersing, in Johore, while on guard duty. The prosecutor said the men, by a matter of seven days, escaped charges of robbery under arms, which is punishable by death. The War Office announced in London that the 2nd Battaliqns of the Coldstream and Scots Guards will sail on September 5 for Malaya, and the l third Battalian of Grenadier Guards will sail on September 9.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 273, 28 August 1948, Page 5
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