I i FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952 Photograph that shocked Britain Publication of a photograph showing severed head of a Malayan patriot killed during a jungle patrol has evoked horror and indignation : “Messages of protest are still pouring into this office by telephone — which first published the picture (reproduced 0% this’ page). Forced by public protest to make astatement, the British admiralty a renin eee to east “The admiralty finds the picture is a fake,’ among British working people. and post,’’ reported the London Daily Worker, doubt on the authenticity of the photo. official spokesman, Even more shocking to the British people than the British commando and Asian soldiers seen in the foreground of this picture “sporting” with their ‘‘trophy” the severed head of a Malayan ‘ patriot — are the British soldiers in the background casually going about their ordinary business. Forty miners strike Interior mine over holiday dispute BEAVERDELL, B.C. Forty workers at Beaverdell’s ‘ Highland Bell mine are on strike as a result of the company’s withdrawing of two statutory holidays agreed upon at a gov- ernment mediation board hear- ing last week. Early in April the men, mem- * mediation. bers of Mine-Mill, voted 34 to 5 to strike April 14. but postpon- ed action to permit government This apparently suc- ceeded but in finalizing the agreement the company again attempted to chisel on the pro- posals, forcing the present strike action, City detectives search PT offices for tickets Armed with a search warrant, detectives from the Vancouver police force searched Offices of the Pacific Tribune on Tuesday this week, ostensibly looking for sweepstake or raffle tickets, After leaving the PT premises the officers visited one or more loca! printshops, apparently on the same errand. (Raffles are illegal in Brit- ish Columbia but the classified pages of the Sun and Province . frequently publish lists of win- ners, with names. On Tuesday this week the Sun printed the names and ticket numbers of 18 winners in a St. Paul’s Alumnae Raffle, prizes to be picked up at the St. Paul’s Nurses’ Home. The Province also printed the list of winners. ) ticket numbers’ and Continued J ohnson into our country by reminding its readers that Canada has no ‘capital gains tax; that there is no’ excess profits tax and that corporation income tax is 46 percent compared to 52 percent in the United States.” Aican didn’t come to B.C. “be- cause it liked Johnson’s smile,” ibut because the . Aluminum Company of America, the par- ent organization, surveyed the world field and picked the Nechako-Kitimat site as the. most economical large power site to be found, said Morgan. “The truth is ‘that’ Premier. Johnson is selling out our na- tural resources to American’ in- terests for a song,” concluded” Morgan. “A continuation of this policy can only lead to economic disaster for the people of B.C.” _ Head -hunting photos from Malaya stir storm of protest in Britain a British commando and The London © Daily Worker promptly replied by publishing a gecond photo and substantiating the photographic evid- ence with details of what it described as ‘“‘the bestial character of the war now being waged in Malaya.” The -pictures it had published ‘‘and others too gruesome to publish,” the paper said, were tak- E en by a young British soldier who had just returned home after service in Malaya. They were taken in the Malay- an village of Kuala Besan last year. “British army officers cannot be ignorant of what was taking place,’’ the paper added. “‘Since these pictures were taken a fine of $200 (Straits) has been im- posed on anybody taking similar pictures.’ The paper followed its explan- ation of the photographs with the soldier’s own pur of the war in Malaya, ‘-We can never win in Malaya. The guerillas are too well or- ganized. The people are with them; The” morale of our lads: is low,” it quoted him as saying. The soldier also revealed that American officers had been go- ing out with British patrols in recent months for “experience.” Confirmation of the London Daily Worker’s charges came the day following British ad- miralty claims that the picture was a fake. Another soldier -walked into- the paper’s office and made this statement: “There are plenty of such photographs in -existence. But many were confiscated by pub- lic relations officers, and the negatives destroyed.” } Here is the London Daily Worker’s own account of the in- terview: : “Still suntanned from his three years service in Malaya, the soldier recalled that he had seen gurkhas coming back from patrol and emptying severed lieads from their packs. .“ ‘T saw that Jate in 1950,’ he- said, ‘in the village of Bentong. It is happening all the time.’. “He spoke about a concentra- tion camp at Ipoh where nearly 1.000 people from the village of Tras—which was burned to the ground as a reprisal for helping guerillas—are -now herded to- gether in unbelievable condi- HONS 4 & “‘*The British soldier has no friends in Malaya,’ he said. ‘The Liberation Army has the sup- port’ of all the workers and | peasants’.”’ Recalling that. head-hunting Dyaks yom Sarawak and Bor- neo were brought to Malaya in August 1948, the London Daily _ protect the profits of the tin PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 9, 1952 — pag? LONDON an “Asian soldier holding up the announced a Worker reported that Labor MP ~ Harold Davies intended to ask the Churchill government what steps were being taken to en- sure that the Dyaks behaved “i? with the laws and usages of war.’ acordance Only a few days after pub- ‘lication of the pictures, the Lom don Daily Worker carried this report from Singapore: “British authorities hav® trebled their prices on the heads of leading Corffmunists in Mal ‘aya. “A price of 30,000 is now of fered any one bringing in alive — or giving information leading the capture of Chan Ping, sec retary of the central executive of the Malayan Communist party. Ke “Seven years ago British 88V° Chan the OBE for his service fighting the Japanese invaders of his country. ‘ae “Half the reward will be pad for ‘information leading to th® killing of Chan Ping’.” — : Commented the London pals Worker: ; Those methods will fail in the long run, Meanwhile, they de grade those who order them 4? those who execute them. They blacken the name’ of the British people before the Wh civilised world, In Geneva in 1949 the pests government signed the revis Geneva Conventions which de# among other things, with colom ial wars. Look at this picture and 5 how these conventions: are @ ing carried outs Al these bestialities are @ rubber companies, Britain does not require @ occupy and oppress Malaya order to get rubber and tin. It could, by honest trade Fr all the tin and rubber itsee gent quires from an_ indepe™ Malaya. ; 4 we ‘It is the profits of the ei that are being safegua Malaya and nothing else. The British people : firmly resolve that they will ® allow their sons to be kill de-civilised for this pw They should force the en : government to grant in énce to Malaya, witharaW troops: and seek to new and just form of tion with the independ ayan government ane That is the way. of honor national interest, The one we are treading now rats, defeat, shame and 0: trayal. '