“FEW WILL SHARE COMPLACENCY ON WAR IN MALAYA”
LONDON, June 12.—“ The Secretary of State for War (Mr John Strachey) appears to be well satisfied with his conclusion that the war in Malaya is going to take a long time to. win,” says the military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. “Few will share his complacency. .“Thdre is the clearest evidence that the technique of the bandits is steadily improving as the effects of the Communists’ victory in China make themselves felt; “There ought to be some greater sense of urgency unless we are prepared ultimately to face a first-class war. 1 J n “The casualty figure of 157 quoted by Mr Strachey gives a false impression. If he had included those from the Malay Regiment, the police, planters and the civil population, we should have a truer picture of -the bandits’ lethal effort.” A Singapore message states that two British Army officers were killed when terrorists ambushed their jeep on the Rawang road north of Kuala Lumpur. Guerrillas, who set an ambush in one of the worst, terrorist areas in Malaya; also fired on a bus, a private car, and a motor-cyclist but scored no hits.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1950, Page 3
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