Communist Plot Alleged

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30154, 11 June 1963, Page 13

Communist Plot Alleged

(IS Z Press Association —CopvrtglU)

KUCHING. June 10

Security forces have arres ed 69 young Chinese whv were believed going to Indonesian Borneo as oart of a Communist olot to overthrow the Sarawak Governmen’ a G ivernmen’ spokesman sa'd Most >f those arrested were teen-agers and about onethird were girls Al) were gaoled The Government had said earlier Communists of Chin ese descent had set up jungle camps in Sarawak and were plotting to setke the Government and set up a regime jo’-al to Peking Seciintv forces quick!' f >u a rpd mos- tunele a-eas ip Nir'hern Sarawak if Comrd its - tramme 'amps This anr>ar“ntlv forced the Communists *o head south for the border with Indonesia to set up operations.

Tht spokesman said the arrests last week were carried mt m the border area

“It is assumed they were noping either to torn bandits jr to obtain some form of military training with the ultimate aim of furthering •he Communist uprising in Sarawak.” the spokesman said

Twenty of those arrested carried metal badges of radical Sarawak United Peoples Party

There have been several raids by armed bands against border villages and police sta’ipns

One police corporal and a 'ivilian have been killed and seve-ai oe-®ons wounded including a British commando snr 1 >i Ghurk’ snider The attackers were believed to' have come from Indonesia.