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British police force in the Malayan Emergency

Armed British policemen talk to an elderly Chinese man in Malaya seeking information about communist ‘bandits’ in the area, April 1949.

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Photographer: Bert Hardy

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'British police force in the Malayan Emergency', URL: /media/photo/police-malayan-emergency, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 16-Jan-2014

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