Head Hunters Going To Fight Terrorists

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1948, Page 5

Head Hunters Going To Fight Terrorists

(Received Augus: 13, 7.55 p.m.) SINGAPORE, August 13. A second batch of Dyak Tribesmen, traditional head-hunters of Borneo, have been flown to Malaya, and are going into action with the British Army against the Terrorists. The first party arrived at Kuala Lumpur last Monday. Some of them have long black hair down to their waists, and elongated ears. Some of them have worked with Allied guerrilla forces, behind the Japanese lines in Borneo. . The Dyaks have carried with them their traditional head-hunting knives, decorated with tufts of human hair, and birds’ feathers. Another ’plane will shortly bring from Sarawak the Dyak’s blow-pipes, through which they shoot poison-tipped arrows which silently paralyse their prey. A detachment of the British Army which attacked a hide-out at Temertion, in the Pahang State, to-day, killed two terrorists and. wounded cne. . _