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Guardsmen Got Their
Man In Jungle.
"Herald" Service. '
ONDON, April 18. - Bandit
forces in Malaya, made more
wary by the reinforcement of the
British forces, are staying deeper
in the jungle than they did pre
viously.
Because 'of this new tactic, pat
rols by British Guardsmen are: us
ually a failure.
However,: a patrol which set oit
from Kunla Lumpur. 'recently
brought back their' bandit. .c
Lachie McDonald, a correspon
dent of the "Daily Mail" in Kuala
ILumpur, sent this story of the' pat
ol- .
"Twelve tired, sweat-stained,
cheerful 20-year-old Grenadier
Guardsmen have just returned to
Kuala Lumpur with a. body on a'
stretcher..
"The body was that of the first
Chinese terrorist the Grenadiers
lad shot after bandits, early in
vMarch, had ambushed and killed a
corporal and four Guardsmen and
wounded an officer and two
unardsmen.
"It was a routine job. Subaltern
John Richardson left: his base
at 2.45,a.m. to.search'a couple of
jungle ridges:seven miles south-east
of Kuala Lumpur,,with. 11 men.
"It'was near.the top of the sec
ond ridge, 'about 1300ft. up, that
the bandit fired against the Guards
men: at 1.30 p.m.
"Four Guardsm$in opened fire as
the Chinese attempted to escape by
diving down' a bank beside the
iungle track.
'The' Guardsmen did not find
him and set night-long ambushes
on tracks leading to possible bandit
camps. Nothing . happened.
"As the patrol was making a final
swing, they found the bandit's body
fully a mile from where he had
been shot 24 hours earlier.
"He had shown amazing forti
tude. He had been hit seven times
--three times in the head, once in
the body, in both legs and a foot.
This Chinese, aged 24, had worked
his way through the thickest jungle."
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