As the train from Gemas to Jerontut chugged through the Malayan jungle, three Chinese stepped out of the underbrush and flagged it. The engineer, braking his train to a stop, realized with horror that the "flag" waved at him to stop was a human head. As if introducing a guest at a cocktail party, one of the Chinese said calmly: "This is Shorty Kuk. We've come to surrender, and we brought his head along."
Ah Kuk, nicknamed "Shorty," was No. 2 man in the Communist terror forces in Malaya. Until rewards were abolished three months ago by the British, the...
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