FRENZIED ATTACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26589, 11 October 1947, Page 8

FRENZIED ATTACK

MALAYAN RUNS AMOK ON TRAIN PASSENGERS SLASHED TO DEATH Rec. 11 p.m. SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. Eight people were killed and 12 wounded when a Malayan ran amok with a four-inch bladed pocket knife on a train between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur last night. Among the killed was a British sergeant. Two British other ranks were critically in-, jured, and a Chinese girl is reported missing. The Malayan escaped. Thd x police surrounded the area where the killings occurred. The killings began when the Malayan entered a restaurant car, attacked four British soldiers, a Chinese and a Malayan who were eating there. The British sergeant was killed and the two British other ranks critically injured when they grappled with the assailant. The Malayan then leaped through the window of the moving train, hacked down a Chinese in a rubber plantation and attacked the occupants of a communal living house. He is reported to have killed a Chinese ( woman, a girl, a boy and wounded 10 'more Chinese.

Incidents in which Malayans go suddenly mad and attack people in frenzy for blood are not uncommon. A Malayan constable in Singapore last month killed a passer-by and wounded seven others in a similar ‘incident.