Protection For P.M.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30841, 28 August 1965, Page 15

Protection For P.M.

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) SINGAPORE, August 27. The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, and members of his Cabinet were given close protection today after the discovery yesterday of an assassination plot against them.

Mr Lee’s home in a heavily-populated area of the city was guarded by 20 armed police.

Patrol cars checked all vehicles approaching the! house for hidden bombs and weapons. The owner of a vacant area of land behind the Prime Minister’s home has been refused permission to build a block of flats because of the opportunity they would present for an assassination I attempt. 21 Arrested The Singapore Government I yesterday announced the arrest of 21 members of the People’s Revolutionary Party, claiming they were planning an armed revolution to establish a Communist government in Singapore. Police said that in addition to the assassinations uf key Government figures, the Communists planned a series of terrorist bombings and the encouragement of race riots by inflaming old antagonisms between Chinese and Malays Among those arrested was the ring leader. Sim Siew Lin. a former member of the Malayan Communist Party.

Sim Siew Lin was arrested as he w ' leaving a meeting place, and was found to be carrying coded Indonesian intelligence reports and instructions from Djakarta to smuggle an importan’—but unnamed—person into Singapore, police said.