ABSTRACT
The cavalcade of federal priority operations moved northwards and southwards from the centre, demolishing on the average two or three hard core Malayan Communist Party districts every six months. The guerrilla organization in these districts was often just as strong as that described in Yong Peng and Segamat, but the Min Yuen was weaker so it was possible to break them without a concentration of effort. The police officers agreed, and the twenty armed uniformed guerrillas sat down in the home of the British Special Branch Officer and argued it out. A quarter of a century later the threat remained in much the same form though Chin Peng's guerrilla strength North of the Thai Border grew from 500 to 1,500 with about 300 more in relatively small groups in the deep jungle in the Northern half of the Malayan Peninsula.
