CHRISTMAS DAY IN MALAYA
Celebrations For Troops (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) SINGAPORE, December 15 A small force of Commonwealth troops will hold the battle line along the Malayan-Thailand frontier on Christmas Day, American Associated Press reported. For the first time in 12 years the majority of Australian and New Zealand and British soldiers will spend Christmas in barracks and camps. Since the 600 remaining. Malayan Communist rebels fled in southern Thailand there has been a slowing down of the jungle war Troops on patrol along the Malayan-Thailand border will eat their Christmas dinners in jungle clearings. Royal Air Force Valettas and Austers will drop them canisters of cold turkey, pudding, nuts, beer, and Christmas mail. For soldiers in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong it will be a traditional Christmas. They will wake on Christmas Day to be served “gunfire”—tea laced with rum—by officers and n.c.o.’s of their units. British servicemen throughout the Far East will play host at numerous Christmas parties for under-privileged Asian chilldren. Father Christmas will arrive at parties in motorised sleighs, river sampans, and helicopters.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 10
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