3

JUNGLE IS
NEUTRAL
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CHAPTER 1
WAR COMES TO MALAYA

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STAY-BEHIND PARTIES’ ORGANIZATION PURPOSES OF “STAY-BEHIND PARTIES”
DESCRIBE AS
➢ An organization to conduct behind enemy To organize and act as nuclei
lines opration for raidin parties sent in
unoccupied area
➢ To be in charge by military officer specially
trained in irregular warfare
To supply intelligence to the
➢ Would include a police officer, planters, or British HQ
other Europeans who knew the languanges of
the country
➢ To operate behind the lines of
Whenever possible had a detailed knowledge
Japanese communication
of the particular locality where they would
operate
➢ The party was also to inlude Malays, Chinese To organize sabotage on the
and Indians, carefully selected for their Japanese
reliability and knowledge of the country
(Ref: Page 12 and Paragraph 11/2015 (Set 3)) Provide anti Japanese
propaganda

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DIFFICULTIES
THAT BRITISH
“The native population are a hotch-
potch of various racial, religious, and
political elements, and among them
include the colonies of three major
European Powers

SOLDIER HAVE Racist – No European can live for a

TO FACE IN day in an Asiatic Country without
MALAYA/ being recognized as white man
REASONS
EUROPEAN Language problem
CONSIDERED
FAR EAST
Geography difficulties – Its
COUNTRIES ARE
mountainous or swampy jungles
DIFFICULT TO
CONDUCT
OPERATION Food hard to gets

Distance are vast

Communication difficulty

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OBJECTIVES OF NO. 101 SPECIAL

TRAINING SCHOOL (STS) :

To train all types of

personnel – military To supply special
and civillian, intelligence to
European and native General HQ, Far East
– in irrregular warfare

Planning for directing

To carry out certain
stay-behind parties in
operation of the
Hong Kong, French,
orders of General HQ,
Indochina, Burma and
Far East
South Thailand

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CHAPTER 2
RECONNAISSANCE
BEHIND JAPANESE LINE

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WAY RECONNAISSANCE THAT CONDUCTED INFORMATION ON JAPANESE ARMY HAD TO
BEHIND THE JAPANESE LINE COLLECT DURING CONDUCTING
➢ RECCONNAISANCE:
Establish liaison with the commander
➢ Suitable interpreter which is a Malay-Speaking
Volunteer who knew that area of operation
Japanese
➢ Conceal a movement by using a jungle IOT to strength
close the Japanese line
➢ Conduct operation during night and dark.
➢ Make a contact with local people to get the Morale of Movement method
information about the Japanese activities Japanese army of Japanese

➢ Cross the river by sampan

Logistic element of Armament carried

Japanese by Japanese

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JAPANESE SOLDIER SUSTAINED THE

METHOD OF LOCAL SURVIVABILITY IN MALAYA
TACTICS AND STRATEGIES USED BY
PEOPLE (MALAYS)
THE STAY-BEHIND PARTIES’ TO
ACCOMPANY THE • Japanese infantry movement majority on bicycles
CONDUCT THE OPERATION
AUTHOR AT EARLY in parties of forty or fifty
STAGE THE CONDUCT • Japanese equipment and armament were equally
• Closed target reconnaissance
RECONNAISSANCE varied and were slung over themselves.
• Hit-and-run tactics
• A convoy of staff cars and lorries heavily
• Raids to be conduct in light motor
 camouflaged with palm fronds
Ferry them across •
craft
Japanese personnel will usually tied their weapon
river • Conduct night or dawn operations
on the frames of the bicycle
 Give information • Using jungle concealment to cover
• Japanese plane seemed unopposed and flew
about Japanese the movement
very low up and down the road
• Using waterlogged boat and
movement • The cooking gear are lightest, living by collecting
 sampan to cross the river
Give them food rice, fowl and vegetables from the village
• Using liason officer to get
 Guide them to use • Japanese seemed to have no standard uniform
information about the Japs movmnt
correct way or equipment and were travelling as light as they
possible could

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TACTICALLY ADVANTAGES FOR THE MALAYAN JUNGLE JAPANESE SOLDIERS WAYSY
CONDUCT OPERATIONS BEHIND FEATURES DURING THE MOVEMENT
ENEMY LINES ➢ The Japanese soldiers were
➢ With these dense undergrowth, Astonished advanced to the frontline although
give assurance for easy cover Straightness and perfect their equipment were second-rate
and concealment symmetry of tree trunks and their uniform are less.
➢ Also been easy enough to elude Thick carpets of dead ➢ Use foot for searching bicycles
pursuit by enemy leaves on the ground during advance. They were used
➢ Solid canopy shut out the whatever available transportation
The average of visibility for two
sky such as cars, lorries
men standing up was the most
only twenty-five yards, give a Colourful and various ➢ Food resource from the villagers.
great sense of confidence for textures of bank
movement
Parasitic growth around the
➢ Advantages to conduct closed treejunks
target reconnaissance
Easily to hide under the
➢ Advantages to conduct hit-and- thick covered
run aids behind enemy lines Visibility is less about 25
yards

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CHAPTER 3
STAY BEHIND PARTIES

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DIFFICULTIES HAD FACE BY WAYS OF CHAPMAN TO THE COMPOSITION OF SMALL
CHAPMAN HELLO!
SUSTAIN THE LIFE IN THE SELF-CONTAINED EUROPEAN
JUNGLE PARTIES
Communication

The party was to

consist of 5-10
Stores and British officers
supplies

General Several Malay

deserves Hunting or Tamil
Gardening Fishing Including at
dumps at animal speakers – if
Volunteers Tras least one
possible, men
demolition
who know the
expert from
area in which
101 STS
they would be
operated
The terrain

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LOGISTICS (STORES) PLAN

FOR THE STAY-BEHIND PARTIES

➢ Stores were to be brought up to KL

from 101 STS or procured locally
➢ A master list was compiled and each
leader could add to it as he thought fit
➢ Each party was to have demolition,
ammunition, and food supplies for
three months
➢ In addition, they were take in seeds
and gardening and forestry tools

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 THE DIFFICULTIES FACING BY CHAPMAN DIFFICULTIES FACING BY CHAPMAN FROM 3
DURING MOVEMENT IN MALAYAN SUNGAI SEMPAN TO TANJUNG MALIM
JUNGLE:
15 miles of 4000 feet Main Range

Thick jungle with rattan and bamboo

They developed
Second man 15 years out of date map
drills of movement in
widened the track
Malay jungle. First Steep mountain sides
and marking route to
man to cut path by Difficult to find direction
avoid lost track
using parang
Impenetrable bamboo or thorn thickets

Steep rocky outcrops, swamps and fallen trees

Every half hour, the
Third man was
Chapman positions Dense jungle limit the visibility
followed and checks
were changed
the route with No concentrated ration, only tinned food
during the
compass.
movement Carrying the Tommy-gun, grenades and pistols

Raining continuously

Leeches, mosquitoes and sand flies bites

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SIGNIFICANT OF THE PLACE NAMED ITEMS THAT THE ‘STAY BEHIND

TRAS PARTIES’ SHOULD HAVE WITH THEM
 Extra dumping area for supplies DURING THE OP
 Centre of the other 3 camps within
Selangor and Pahang Food supplies
for three
 Demolition Ammunitions
Declared as the general RV in any months full
case of emergency scale

 Where wireless transmitter was Seed and

hidden Fishing and
gardening and Bicycle
hunting tools
 forestry tools
Function as reserve supply dump
 No Japanese pass by the area as
far as he is concern Suitable
Wireless set
clothing, stain

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CHAPTER 4
THE MAD FORTNIGHT

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SUCCESSFUL ACTION WAY OF FORCE 136 IN

DONE BY THE FORCE MALAYA CONDUCTED THE
REACTION TO PREVENT
136 DURING SABOTAGE OPERATION : RAID OF
AMBUSH FROM CHAPMAN
OR AMBUSH PLAN SOUTH TANJUNG MALIM
AND HIS PARTY
TOWARDS JAPANESE
ARMY • Cross the Bemam River
• The Japanese seemed TYPE OF OPERATIONS
into Escot Estate as soon
to have stopped using ON THE MAD FORTNIGHT
• Derailed 7 or 8 trains as it was really dark
the road and railway at
• Severely damaged at • Then followed the wide
night • Raids and sabotage a
least 15 bridges estate road past the
• Posted sentries on all bridge and railway line
• Cut the railway line in coolie lines to the railway
bridges • Road ambush to the
about 60 places and undernath it to the
• Patrolling the road and convoy of Japanese
• Damaged or destroyed road
railway at night
some 40 motor vehicles • Had at least six hours in
• Japanese establish a
• Killed / wounded which to operate
large force to hunt the
somewhere between • The objective was the
British sabotage parties
500 and 1500 bridge a mile south of the
Japanese railway station

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CHAPTER 5A CHAPTER OF
PERILOUS JOURNEYS

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WAYS SURE THEIR TEMPORARY CAMP JAPANESE SOLDIER TECHNIQUE TO GAIN
SECURED FROM ENEMY PATROL CONTROL OF THE VILLAGERS AND TO
ELIMINATE THE BRITISH AND GUERRILLAS
INFORMERS
Their temporary camp  They sent their agents to the village everyday
location is about half
miles deep from the to watch and report about kampongs any
riverbank suspicious activities
 They round up everybody at certain place
 Capture and burn down home of suspected
Noise
Conceal kampong
their
discipline
footprints  Collecting all the suspected kampongs into one
kongsi – house then the Japanese give them
lectures and afterwards either in their
capricious way to tommy – gun or bayonet
them or if lucky they let them free
Fixed up trip-wires  Capture hundreds of Chinese and then burned
them into death

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CHAPTER 6
WE JOIN THE CHINESE
GUERRILLAS

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CONDITION CHINESE GUERILLAS CAMP AT ULU
SLIM
 Built beneath the  This hunt consisted
overhanging sides of an simply of a high peaked
enormous single boulder roof, of which the ataps
 were still green
Only an atap lean to roof
had been added to these  A sleeping bench of
natural caverns to provide flattened bamboo running
a kitchen round three sides of it
 about two feet above the
Lecture room which
ground
would accommodate the
sixty or so occupants of  From the boulder a small
the camp path ran down a steep
 bank to a fair sized
Sleeping branches for
stream which provided
about half this number,
water for the camp
the rest of the men lived
in an atap house fifty  The latrines were built out
yards up the hill above over the stream some
the boulder roof yards further down

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FACTORS OF CHINESE GUERILLAS CAMP AT WAY MALAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY (MCP)
BATU CAVES CONSIDERED WAS MOST KEEP THEIR SURVIVABILITY AND SECRETARY
UNHEALTHY CAMP OF THEIR BASE CAMP IN JUNGLE
 The sanitary conditions
 The author and his friend felt ill in the camp Personnel dress like normal person

 The diet was no worse

 The poor standard of health Choose the place that have small stream for their
water supply and sanitary system
 The latrine, which was only 30 yards from the
camp
 Consisted of two poles over a pit full or a sticking Set up patrol around their base camp
mass of seething maggots
 Most of the men used stream immediately below Movement outside camp is done only at night with no
the camp torchlight. Kill and shoot any of Malays that seeing
them during their movement for secrecy purpose
 All the refuse from the cookhouse was thrown into
open pits just across the stream
 Lot of soldier from this camp suffering from beri- Hideout the food, ammunition and weapon in dump
beri

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JAPANESE METHOD OF ATTACKING

THE MALAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY
(MCP) BASE CAMP

ASSISTANCE REQUIRED BY
Clear the nearby CHINESE GUERILLA OF
Mortar attack at
kampongs and CHAPMAN
dawn to the camp
killed all the
location
Chinese  To advise on policy
 To help in touch with their
intelligence and propaganda
Assault into the departments
Machine gun attack  To supply any weapons and other
base camp area by
hilly area military supplies
foot

Burn out the base

camp to avoid from
it being reused by
the MCP again

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TACTICS JAPS INVADED & DESTROYED THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE THEM
CAMP DURING CHAPMAN AT BATU CAVES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS A NEW
CAMP SITE BESIDE SUNGEI KANCHING

The attack began at 5.45 a.m with two or

more mortars The area was a remote
part of the jungle and well
away from any paths
After the silent for some times, the
machine-gun fire brooke out from the hill
and continued for about ten minutes Not too far from
kampung which would
supply them with foods
Hundred Jap soldiers and as many
Malays and Indians charged down the hill
with loud shouts and fixed bayonets
Good defensive position
was needed a guard post
Set fire to all huts and retired hurriedly

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CHAPTER 7
SKIRMISH ON THE KING’S
HIGHWAY

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DESCRIBE THE GUERILLA’S GIRL AT MENCHIS

 Two distinct types; the better educated ones who taught Mandarin and
singing, and the tougher ones who helped in the kitchen and did at least
their full share of the heaviest and dirtiest chores
 Act as nurses and seamstresses
 Go on guard and attend all the parades
 Acted as secretaries and help teaching and propaganda work
 Less fortitude when carried heavy loads
 Good influence in the camps
 Cruel as the men in dealing with a captured Japanese
 Treated exactly like the men

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FROM BATU CAVES CAMP TYPE OF STORES DID CHAPMAN & HAYWOOD
TO SG GOW THROUGH HAYWOOD SEARCH IN TRIP FROM BATU CAVES
MINOR ROAD BY CYCLING GENTING SEMPAK TO SUNGAI GOW CAMP
FACING LOT OF WAS ACCOMPANIED BY
DIFFICULTIES AH LOY
Charcoal burner oven Pahang
Genial
Guerrilla new
Cantonese
Poor intelligent information leader
Rice, sugar
Spoke little
Expect that Japanese Explosive English and son Ran away
never use the road at of rich man
night. No proper
movement plan Ammunition
Members of 8th
Communist
Route Army
The poor condition of Grenades Guerrilla School
member
bicycles, Chapman and
Haywood to exhausted
riding uphill. Chapman Tins of food
been shot Extremely
Too impetuous
courageous

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DIFFICULTIES ITEM WAS KEPT IN THE FOOD DUMP & SITUATION TO THE
EXPERIENCED BY FOOD DUMP WHEN THEY ARRIVED
CHAPMAN AND HIS
TEAM DURING THE 4 gallon tin
JOURNEY of rice
➢ Started badly with several
miles cycling through Sugar
rubber estates Area flooded
with water
➢ Tiny and muddy roads Oil
➢ Steep terrain downhill
The item
➢ Narrow plank bridges kept
Explosive What
over irrigation ditches happened was
Dump broken
➢ Bad crash and soak in the Ammunition by bears and
water waters except
explosive,
➢ Cycling through the Grenades ammo,
grenades and
climbing hill road small tin of
Small tins of foods
foods

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CHAPTER 8
THE MENCHIS
GUERILLA

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HOW THE GUERRILLAS MAINTAIN THEIR
MORALE COURAGE IN THEIR DAILY LIFE
ROUTINE PROGRAM IN CAMP
• Systematic program
• All personel must attend formal parade every
morning
• Execute basic military training, arms drill,
grenade throwing & marching
• Attending lecturer to enhance guerrilla general
knowledge, geography & history of Russia,
Malaya or China
• Public speaking on propaganda organisation
• Singing lesson
• Parade of all hands to take down the colours and
sing ‘The Red Flag’
• A general debate
• Guerrilla will held camp concert as their greatest
reaction (celebrate Soviet / Chinese festive)

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ROLE & FUNCTION ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES OF CHINESE
GUERILLA GROUP
Attached to group headquarters were Patrol HQ was a replica of group
The Political usually one / more outside workers whose headquarters, but there was in addition
Leader status depended on their own personality/ a military second-in-command who
their standing in the MCP supervised the guard & training
 Their task, perhaps the most  Its members were allowed very
Teacher-cum- important of all, was to cultivate the little initiatives & would often go to
propaganda- minds of the outside people so that any length to avoid responsibility
Group HQ worker they would support the camps, to
usually  The schoolmaster was usually
allocate the areas of influence & the
consisted of helped by one of the girls, who in
4 permanent food line between the various patrols
general tended to be better
officers & to supervise the systematic
The Military educated & much more intelligent
discovery & eradication of traitors and
Commander than the man
informers
 His job was to teach Mandarin,
 These men, who ere usually the best
singing & general knowledge –
educated & most intelligent of the
with strong ‘left’ bias – to organize
The guerrillas, spent only a small
concerts & produce camp
Quatermaster proportion of their time in the camps
magazine
& the rest in the kampungs / on tour

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CHAPMAN MANAGE TO
5 ORIGINAL JOBS OF
WEAKNESS POINTS OF CONVINCE THE JAPANESE
CHINESE BEFORE THEY
GUERRILLA’S OFFICER IN THE
TURN TO BE GUERRILLAS
ORGANISATION INTERROGATION AFTER HE
WAS CAUGHT
 Headquarter absolute power for
everything Rubber  Explain he had been working for
 Patrol leader had complete power tapper Chinese Guerrilla
within their patrol only  Run away after knowing that they
 No communication between groups Tin are communist
 Odd  He live with Sakai tribe after
No visit exchanges between groups mining
barber escaping
without approval from general coolies
headquarter  He told the Japanese how good to
 Members of guerrilla knew nothing be in civilised world after joining
about general headquarter the guerrilla
 Lack of capabilities of junior leaders  He promised to tell them
 Moral of guerrilla getting low due to Woodcut everything about the wicked
Gardener
ters communist
rigorous camp discipline
 A few of them turn to be Japanese  Chapman manage to rolled up the
informer diary inside the handkerchief
 Later, he throw the diary into the
fire to dissolve the evidence he had

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REASONS MANY CHINESE
GUERRILLAS IN MENCHIS CAMP MAIN PROBLEMS OF TRAINING AT
ARE FRUSTRATED MENCHIS CAMP

They hated rigorous discipline that prevented Drill Training so badly, but the leaders can’t
from visiting their village. The food were very
see the faults & can’t correct them
poor compared to what they used in their
homes

No particularly interested in learning the rules

of aiming during weapons training
Shortage of medicine supply in the camp

Little trust on instructor whose cannot give

the right answer to queries
Early day, they hope of keeping out the
Japanese out from Malaya, but due to lack of
weapons, equipments, tactics, they have to
stay in the camp Not interested in learning the correct use of
cover & camouflage. Neglected safety
precautions – lot of incidents happen

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CHAPTER 9
THE BANDIT CAMP IN JOHORE

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“
INTRODUCTION
This chapter is about the colonel
Spencer adventure find the bandit
camp in Johore

By September strong patrols of

Japanese accompanied by
Indians and Malays entered the
jungle from the road to the east
and approached near camp

Almost impossible for anybody to go

outside to collect food

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CHAPTER 10
JAP TROUBLE IN
NEGERI SEMBILAN

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REASONS JAPANESE LEFT FACTORS WHICH
5 TYPES OF TRAINING BEHIND FOWLS, GOATS DELAYED MOVEMENT
FOR GEURILLA & HERD IN KAMPONGS OF CHAPMAN &
RECRUITS AFTER THEY KILLED CHINESE GUERRILLA
LOCAL PEOPLE FROM CAMP TO CAMP
Weapons Demolition
training training Chinese guerrillas guide very
Conducted decoy poor & they always lost track
plan to lure Chinese
guerrilla out from Chapman suffered from ill /
the jungle. Chinese fever that effect their
Minor tactics Drill
guerrilla are hunting movements
for food at Japanese’s patrol activities
kampungs also force restriction on
Propaganda Chapman’s movement
Physical training
work
The terrain itself become
barrier especially when need
to cross river, steep of hill

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CHAPTER 11
FORCE 136

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INTRODUCTION OPERATION GUSTAVA OPERATION GUSTAVA 4

1
 In this chapter it was  Operation for one • Operation for Broome
explain about the role European and Chinese to and Capt Harrison, ex
of Force 136 during embark in a Dutch Malayan Rubber planter,
the Malayan Submarine from Colombo board in Submarine from
Campaign. in early 1943. Trincomalee on Sept 12,
 This chapter also  Tranship by night to a 1943.
explain about the Chinese junk of Malacca • Arrangement for
Operation Gustava Straits. reinforce and replace
that conduct by the  Persuade the crew to land Davis.
Force 136 in Malayan. the party somewhere on • Sighted junk at the RV
 Roughly explain the the West coast of Malaya. off Sembilan Island with
Operation Gustava 1  Chinese in the party would Davis signals.
and Operation contact the Chinese • Broome returned with
Gustava 4. ashore and through them Davis his camp near the
the local guerilla. jungle.

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 PLANNING OF GUSTAVA LESSON LEARNT 3
OPERATION THAT CONDUCTED BY
FORCE 136 In this Chapter , a few
important that might be
highlighted by the author :

A party of Chinese and The party of Chinese would

European embark in Dutch contact the Chinese ashore
Submarine from Colombo in through them the local The important and the role of
April 1943. guerilla. Force 136 during the Malayan
Emergency

After a month, the

European come out to the The important of the plan
Chinese fishing craft and before execute the task
contact the submarines at
an agreed placed off the
island in the straits.
The important of the
cooperation among the soldier
to make the plan success.

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CHAPTER 12
SEARCH PARTY THROUGH
MOUNTAIN

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ROUTE TO FIND PAT
INTRODUCTION DISCUSSION NOONE
 Pat Noone was very intersted in
The expedition of Pat Noone which  The searched of Pat Noone
is an ethnologist which is study Communist theory and eager to
join the communist party. through the route of Kg
about the tribe who live in the jungle
(Sakai Tribe) Jalong by Chapman.
 He (Pat Noone) also complaint  Chapman and Davis
about the movement and the traverse the part of the
He (Pat Noone) joined the guerilla technique of communist party route which is full with
camp HQ in May 1942. which is unreasonable. (anti- Sakai tribe all the way.
British bias)  From Jalong, Davis double
 He (Pat Noone) live with the Sakai back thru Kelantan and
Pat Noone work with the Sakai tribe
to get the information about the in Temenggor district which is follow the Korbu river to the
Japanese movement in Malaya. located north of Perak to get the Temenggor and Grik.
information about the Japs.  In this expedition, Davis
and Chapman bring Black
 IOT find Noone , the expedition of Lim which is able to speak
Pat Noone able to speak a certain Chapman through the Titiwangsa in 4 Chinese language.
word from Sakai Tribe. range.

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THE JOURNEY LESSON LEARN

From this chapter, we have
found the point might be
 Chapman , Davis and Black Lim was highlighted which is :
equip with pistol and grenade along that
journey.
 They travel from Sakai house of Sakai The important of bring the local
people during the searcher.
from 13 April until 25 April.
 The journey had been guide by the Sakai
people by the order of Sakai Headman
(Tok Batin). The important to know about the
local origin people.
 After their reach the destination, the could
not find Pat Noone when the Sakai
Headman who had the daughter name
Never surrender to get new
Ajang notice that he never meet Pat information about the Jap’s
Noone since the war started. movement.

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CHAPTER 13
CAPTURE

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‘TRIGGER POINT’ THAT MADE HIM TO Used 8 tablets morphia pills given
by David & Broome
DECIDE THAT IT WAS THE MOST SUITABLE
TIME TO ESCAPE FROM RAT-FACE Had no intention to kill the sentries
 Conclusion that they were deserters/ plain Pill will put the sentries asleep
bandits posing as guerrillas
 They were trying to sell him to the Gave them 4 each
Communist / to the Japs TECHNIQUE /
METHOD/ WAY Slipped the pills into their mugs
 It was his fourteenth days in the camp – a CHAPMAN before they stir the sugar
month’s rest & adequate SUCCESSFULLY
ESCAPE FROM
Left them & climbed the ladder to
 His thirty-six birthday at that time – THE ENEMY
his loft
CAMP
seemed an auspicious day to escape
 Enough food to eat & had made Chapman Already removed part of the atap
extremely fit wall in one corner of the hut
 Thought he could get home in a week
even without any help from the Sakai Before midnight, he tiptoed down
the ladder from left, pushed his
bulky pack through this gap &
crawled out after it

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The important notice from

the chapter that might be
highlighted are :

The perfect plan and observation

to escape when capture by the

LESSON
enemy.

The importance to master the

skills of compass reading.

LEARNT The importance of survival kits

during the critical time

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CHAPTER 14
ESCAPE

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CHAPMAN MIND WHILE HE 3
WAS CAPTURED BEFORE CHAPMAN’S SUCCESSFUL
SUCCESSFULLY BY PASSES ESCAPE PLAN AFTER A FEW
THE SENTRIES & ESCAPE HOURS OF SLEEPING
THE BANDIT CAMP/ INITIAL
PLAN TO ESCAPE FROM  Woke up at 1 o’clock TECHNIQUE / METHOD /
CAPTIVITY OF JAPANESE  Clear the canvas near the WAY CHAPMAN ESCAPED
head FROM DETENTION
 Was to pull up the canvas at  Pretend he was sick because
the back of the tent & to slip of the fire  Pretended to be violently
out that ways  Guard moved away the fire sick
 Was to go to the edge of the from tent  The N.C.O was quite
jungle to relieve nature (pee) &  The tent become dark sympathetic & he
then to make a dash for it  Put on rubber shoes immediately called up the
 Was to set the officer’s  Take the haversack & other sentries & together they
clothing alight & then to slip belonging damped down the fire &
away in the ensuing hubbub  Look at the sleepy guard raked it further from the
 Put the bamboo embers in the  Moved closer to the edge of tent
spare clothing of other people the tent  Once the N.C.O
 Wait for guard move bit far & overlooked at Chapman &
run away through the open others are far from him,
tent he move out through out
the opening at the bottom
of the canvas
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CHAPTER 15
TRAITOR-KILLING CAMP

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DISCUSSION
 The traitor ways to kill the LESSON LEARNT
INTRODUCTION communist by wear and act as
 From the chapter of
normal civilian and no one suspect
it was a traitor to kill Chapman. Traitor in The Killing Camp
 In this chapter, it
 They also carry out pistol that , some important point
illustrate the journey that might be collected are
might be hide and always meet
of Chapman through :
frequently at the coffee shop.
out the jungle with  Maintain the secrecy to
 The reason they always met in the
the Communist. achieve the goal.
 coffee shop because of to discuss
The author also  The important of disguise
about the plan to launch the urban
portray how the knowledge without known
killing at the village.
communist camp by the enemy.
 The technique of the traitor by
operate itself (the  The important to maintain
entering the Kampong by carrying
admin and the the field dicipline among
Tommy Gun and Rifle.
routine of the camp) the soldier to ensure the it
 The MPAJA (traitor) maintain their
moral by become as local police cannot detect by the
and informer. enemy.

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CHAPTER 16
A YEAR OF FRUSTRUATION

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INTRODUCTION
 In this chapter, roughly it will
describe about the reason
why Chapman had the year
of frustration.
 It also describe about the
ways of Chinese Guerilla
party survive from the Japs
attack at Pa Kas’ut camp.

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Bagpack containing GROUND APPRECIATION OF THE GURUN
all of their money &
medicines CAMP SITE

Narrow & gently sloping step on one of the steep

sharp ridges that run down from Batu Puteh to
All of their drug
the Telom River

Ground is easily defended, provided that the

A copy of their enemy approached up the main track
MATERIALS THAT signals plan
HAS BEEN LOSSES
& TAKEN BY THE Has maze of track & many of them come from
JAPANESE A number of maps behind
Author’s diaries &
collections for the last
years Give good field of fire from the guard post a
hundred yard below the camp
A long report on his
two years which
author had written to Tiny stream which supply them with water
be sent out by
submarine

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CHAPTER 17
WE GET ON THE AIR

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PRINCIPLES OF THE AGREEMENT

“TO GET ON WITH THE WAR”

Tactical Increase of
decentralisation power for all
on the guerrillas their officers

Encouragement Co-operate to
of individual the full with
initiative British officers

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CHAPTER 18
SUBMARINES PICK-UP

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THE “
TASK
To get somebody out by the
submarine from Malaya to
Ceylon

PROBLEM
To choose the rendezvous point
(meeting at an agreed time/ place)

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PLAN
LOCATION SET UP
 Navy proposed May 13th as the pick up
 Small bay called as Tanjong Bilangah or date
known as Emerald Bay  Recognition:
 It is facing straight out to sea on small  Means of device known as Eureka and
island, Pulau Pangkor Laut infra-red torch
 Located two miles from Japanese coast-  Devices will be send in the next drop on
watching station on the hill top above April 26th
Pangkor harbor which make it immune  However, Colombo changed the drop date
from suspicion to April 28th
 Besides, it near to the fishing centre that  Caused changes in plan due to the
a lot of craft presence there which likely insufficient time, decided to use a torch and
caused the sampan to get through ordinary red glass filter for recognition
unnoticed by enemy  Chen Ping responsible to arrange details of
the route

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CHAPTER 19
RETURN TO MALAYA

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IMPORTANT EVENT

1. Col Chapman can’t believe that he was an teams ready to play their part during the
author of book called ‘Memoirs of a invasion of Malaya took place.
Mountaineer’. The publisher reported that he
4. On August 6, 1945, first atomic bomb was
was ‘missing, believed killed’ for 3 years. He
dropped on Hiroshima and 3 days later a
disappointed that there was no obituary notice
second bomb devastated Nagasaki.
inside.
5. On August 17, 1945, Cease Fire Order was
2. He and Broome sit down together and compile
sent to all Force 136 personnel in field.
long reports. Broome wrote the story of
Japanese surrendered.
Gustavas Operations and the history of our
liaison with MPAJA. Chapman wrote about the
history of the British stay-behind parties and his
adventures in Malaya.
3. On February 1,1945, 3500 Chinese guerillas
would be armed and trained by our liaison

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&
ALL THE BEST