Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
In a Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead. Aluminium; Canvas; Leather; Plastic; Hand made khaki canvas peaked cap. The crown of the cap is constructed of five triangular panels, and the brim is made from a double layer of canvas for stiffness. A brown leather chinstrap with aluminium slides is attached above the brim by a pair of brown plastic buttons. There are four brass ventilation eyelets let into the sides of the cap, and a cotton cord, possibly intended as a functional chin- or headstrap is knotted through the rearmost pair. On the front of the peak is a hand embroidered five-pointed red star. The cap is unlined and crudely finished. Remant of plastic lining at seam edge. Summary: Cap taken from a captured Communist Terrorist by members of 2 Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, in Malaya during 1956.
General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's crisp, aggressive High Commissioner for Malaya, is slowly gaining ground in his war with the Red guerrillas. He has some 400,000 troops, police and home guards against about 5,000 Communists. Malaya is laced with barbed wire, crisscrossed with searchlights, webbed with interlocking patrols. More & more Malays and Chinese are whispering against the bandits, although many fear Red reprisals. Templer recently uprooted 66 men, women & children from one village and put them in a detention camp for failing to inform against Communist assassins.
Chrome-plated brass; Cotton; Glass; Rubber; Chrome-plated brass torch with a 260 mm white cotton wrist strap. The top surface of the torch body has a sliding on-off switch with the impressed word 'OFF' exposed when it is in the rear position. In front of the switch is a circular press-button enabling the light to be 'flashed'. The rear screw-cap covering the battery compartment is impressed with the words 'EVEREADY TRADE-MARK MADE IN HONG KONG'. The front lens section can also be unscrewed, exposing the bulb. There is a rubber gasket fitted between the glass lens and the cap. Behind the lens are a series of Chinese characters scratched into the chrome finish. There are several splashes of olive green paint on the body of the torch. Summary: Torch taken from the first Communist Terrorist killed by Australian forces in Malaya. This action would have occurred in January or early February 1956 when 2 Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment commenced operations in southern Kedah as part of Operation 'Deuce'.
In the past month, 101 guerrillas were killed (including 13 party bigwigs), 18 were captured and 24 surrendered.* In the same period, the Communists killed 14 police and two British civilians. But one day last week, a Singapore paper was able to print this terse report: "Yesterday was one of the quietest days of the emergency for many months. No battles were reported. There were no murders."
*In number of Communists put out of action, it was the second best month of the four-year "emergency." Best: last June, when 151 guerrillas were killed or captured. The source.
