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95. Andrew Gilmour, My role in the rehabilitation of Singapore, 1946–53 (Singapore, 1973), p. 16.

96. J. P. Cross and Buddhiman Gurung, Gurkhas at war in their own words: the Gurkha experience, 1939 to the present (London, 2002), pp. 178–80; Ahmad Boestamam (trans. William R. Roff), Carving the path to the summit (Athens, OH, 1979), p. 95.

CHAPTER 10 1948: THE MALAYAN REVOLUTION

1. Gent to H. T. Bourdillon, 22 January 1948, A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British Documents on the End of Empire: Malaya, Part I (London, 1995), pp. 372–3.

2. Malaya Tribune, 13 November 1947.

3. Gent to Creech Jones, 30 December 1947, 4 January 1948, CO537/3667, TNA.

4. Thio Chan Bee, The extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man (London, 1977), pp. 70–74.

5. Simon C. Smith, British relations with the Malay rulers from decentralization to independence, 1930–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1995), pp. 97–9, 118–19.

6. Editorial, Malaya Tribune, 15 December 1947.

7. A. J. Stockwell, ‘British imperial strategy and decolonization in South-east Asia, 1947–57’, in D. K. Basset and V. T. King (eds.), Britain and South-East Asia (University of Hull Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Papers, no. 13, 1986), pp. 79–90, at pp. 81–2.

8. ‘Note: W. Linehan’, 2 March 1948, CO537/3746, TNA.

9. Christopher Blake, A view from within: the last years of British rule in South-East Asia (Castle Cary, 1990), pp. 84–5.

10. John Ede interview, OHD, SNA.

11. Malaya Tribune, 24 September 1947; Yeo Kim Wah, Political development in Singapore, 1945–55 (Singapore, 1973), pp. 254–66.

12. Lady Percy McNiece interview, OHD, SNA.

13. Lee Kam Hing and Chow Mun Seong, Biographical dictionary of the Chinese in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 1997), pp. 88–90.

14. Yong Ching Fatt, Tan Kah Kee: an Overseas Chinese legend (Singapore, 1987), pp. 312–18; Chui Kwei-chiang, ‘The China Democratic League in Singapore and Malaya, 1946–48’, Review of Southeast Asian Studies, 15 (1985), pp. 1–28.

15. ‘KMT party funds: their sources and investments’, supplement to Malayan Security Service, Political Intelligance Journal, [MSS/PI], 31 August 1947.

16. C. F. Yong and R. B. McKenna, The Kuomintang movement in British Malaya, 1912–1949 (Singapore, 1990), ch. 8.

17. Lt. Col. T. N. Glazebrook to C.H. Tarner, MI2, 20 April 1948, WO208/3929, TNA.

18. ‘The KMT guerrillas, North Perak’ supplement no. 4 of 1948 to MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1948; Wilfred Blythe, The impact of Chinese secret societies in Malaya: a historical study (London, 1969), pp. 388–91.

19. ‘Statement of Yuin See’, appendix A to supplement no. 4 of 1948 to MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1948.

20. Blythe, The impact of Chinese secret societies, pp. 368–78, 392–9.

21. Ibid, pp. 380–83; Charles Gamba, The origins of trade unionism in Malaya (Singapore, 1960), pp. 230–31.

22. MSS/PIJ, 15 May 1947; ‘Politico-Triad activities in Malaya’, supplement no. 2 to MSS/PIJ, 15 January 1948.

23. Anthony Short, In pursuit of mountain rats: the communist insurrection in Malaya (Singapore, 2000 [1975]), pp. 52–3; Chin Peng, My side of history (Singapore, 2004), pp. 202–5.

24. ‘Translation of a cyclostyled pamphlet marked “Passed at the 4th Plenary Conference of the MCP Central Executive Committee held from 17–21 March 1948’, supplement to MSS/PIJ, 30 June 1948.

25. ‘Malayan Communist Party policy’, supplement No. 9 to MSS/PIJ, 31 July 1948.

26. For example, MSS/PIJ, 6 March 1948.

27. Clive J. Christie, A modern history of Southeast Asia: decolonisation, nationalism and separatism (London, 1996), pp. 183–6; Gurney to Creech Jones, 10 November 1948, CO537/3685, TNA.

28. Straits Echo, 20 March 1948.

29. Firdaus Haji Abdullah, Radical Malay politics: its origins and early development (Petaling Jaya, 1985), pp. 44–7.

30. MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1948.

31. Straits Times, 26 April 1948; MSS/PIJ, 15 May 1948.

32. Shamsiah Fakeh, Memoir Shamsiah Fakeh: dari AWAS ke Rejimen Ke-10 (Bangi, 2004), pp. 53–4; Ibrahim Chik, Ibrahim Chik: dari API ke Rejimen Ke-1 (Bangi, 2004), pp. 64–6.

33. MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1948.

34. We have drawn