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61. Memo: V. D.’ DA & QHG 14th Army, 15 October 1945; C. E. C. Davis, ‘Report on the VD situation in Singapore, 4 March 1946’; ‘Special meeting held at HQ SACSEA to consider methods to combat VD in SEAC, 7 December 1945’, BMA/DEPT/1/2, AMN.
62. Acting Commissioner of Police, Malayan Union, ‘Suppression of brothels – reasons against’, n.d. [November 1946], SCA/28/46, SNA.
63. Singapore City Committee Malayan Communist Party to Civil Affairs Department, 23 October 1945, BMA/CA/8/45, SNA.
64. Min Sheng Pau [Kuala Lumpur], 18 October, 11 December, 1945.
65. New Democracy, 27 October 1945.
66. Maj. General G. N. Wood (25 Indian Division) to Victor Purcell, 24 December 1945; Purcell to Wood, 28 December 1945, WO203/5302, TNA.
67. Min Sheng Pau, 22 October 1945.
68. New Democracy, 22 January 1946.
69. ‘BMA Monthly Report for February 1946’, WO220/564, TNA; Mubin Sheppard, Taman Budiman: memoirs of an unorthodox civil servant (Kuala Lumpur, 1979), pp. 144–5; Datuk Mohd Yusoff Hj. Ahmad, Decades of change (Malaysia – 1910s–1970s) (Kuala Lumpur, 1983), p. 325.
70. Gilmour, With Freedom to Singapore, pp. 133, 152, 155.
71. Chin Kee Onn, Malaya upside down (Singapore, 1946), pp. 190–8.
72. Wong Yunn Chii and Tan Kar Lin, ‘Emergence of a cosmopolitan space for culture and consumption: the New World Amusement Park – Singapore (1923–70) in the inter-war years’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 5, 2 (2004), pp. 279–304.
73. M. S. Daud, ‘Popularity of the “Bangsawan” is declining’, Malaya Tribune, 18 July 1948.
74. Sin Chew Jit Poh, 22 October 1945.
75. New Democracy, 4 October 1945.
76. Modern Daily News, 10 October 1945.
The ‘Eight Principles’ are:
(1) Support the Democratic Alliance of Soviet Russia, China, Britain and America. Support the new International Peace Organization.
(2) Materialize the Malayan Democratic polity. Establish organs of peoples’ wish for the whole of Malaya as well as the respective States by universal suffrage of the various nationalities and Anti-Japanese organizations of Malaya.
(3) Abolish the political structure formed by the domination of the Japanese Fascists in Malaya. Abolish all Japanese laws and decrees.
(4) Practise the absolute freedom of speech, publication, organization, public meeting and belief. Assure the legal position of all parties and organizations.
(5) Relinquish the old system of education and exercise democratic education with the respective national languages. Expand national culture.
(6) Improve the living conditions of the people; develop Industry, Agriculture and Commerce; relieve the unemployed and refugees; increase wages universally and practise the ‘8 hours’ work system’.
(7) Reduce the prices of goods to the level; stabilize the living conditions of the people; punish corrupt officials, profiteers and hoarders.
(8) Treat the Anti-Japanese armies kindly, and help the families of the fallen warriors. (Cheah Boon Kheng, Red star over Malaya: resistance and social conflict during and after the Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941–1946 (Singa-pore, 1983), appendix D, ‘Statement of the Selangor State Committee, The Communist Party of Malaya’, 27 August 1945, pp. 308–9.)
77. Victor Purcell, ‘Malaya’s Political Climate IV: 10–30 November 1945’, WO203/5302, TNA.
78. ‘Number of cases receiving relief and amount of cash issued’, 11 October 1945, BMA/CA/48/45, SNA.
79. Cheah Boon Kheng, The masked comrades: a study of the Communist United Front in Malaya, 1945–48 (Singapore, 1979), pp. 24–5.
80. Modern Daily News [Penang], 25 December 1945.
81. Sin Chew Jit Poh, 6 October 1945.
82. See the testimonies in Agnes Khoo, Life as the river flows: women in the Malayan anti-colonial struggle (Petaling Jaya, 2004).
83. Tai Ngo, ‘To our sisters’, Kin Kwok Daily News [Ipoh], 3 November 1945.
84. A. F. P. Hulsewe, ‘Survey of current Chinese periodicals in Malaya’, Chinese Press Summary, 60 [Jan. 1946], pp. 13–18.
85. Victor Purcell, ‘Malaya’s Political Climate II: 1–19 October 1945’, WO203/5302, TNA.
86. Ibid.
87. Purcell, Memoirs of a Malayan Official, p. 353.
88. Quoted