Singapore Clean-up
Fifty British marines working under the naval provost-marshal, Major F. Little, cleaned up the grog racket in a week. Raiding parties, working day and night, broke up the Chinese “hooch” gangs. Although there were 22 deaths and two cases of blindness from alcoholism when the round up began, not a single case has been reported since. ,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 6
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