MALAYAN WAR DISPATCHES
PUBLICATION URGED BY GENERAL
(Rec. 11.36 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 9. Another appeal for the publication of his Malayan dispatches was mad? by Lieutenant-GerieraJ A. E. Percival, Who Coipmapder-in-Chief ip MfUayq gt the time of the Jqpapese
invasion, at a London dinner Igst night of several hpndreq officers who served in the campaign. Lieutenant? General Percival said he did not blame the War Office, but he hoped that in fairness tq the brave men who had fought there the Qovernmpnt would now release the story. According to tfie ‘Daily Mail,” Lieu-tenant-General Percival’s sfory is likely to appear within tfie next week or so. The “Daily Mail” says the War Office has all along favoured immediate publication, fiut that tfie decision M>as taken out of its hands. The new Minister of War (Mr E. Shin well) has now interested himself in it.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25363, 10 December 1947, Page 7
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