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Armed British policemen talk to an elderly Chinese man in Malaya seeking information about communist ‘bandits’ in the area, April 1949.
Photographer: Bert Hardy
Sourced from Wikimedia Commons
'British police force in the Malayan Emergency', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/police-malayan-emergency, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 16-Jan-2014
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