17 JANUARY 1947, Page 16

THE BRITISH IN MALAYA

Sta,—I read your paper for many years before the last war. When the Japanese come here I do not get it any more, but now the war is finished I get new copies again. I now see much writing in it about India, Malaya and places. And in this country you have come back and start to make things right again, but I think you make mistakes. Because some of your men do not go away when the Japanese come here, and the Japanese kill them or put them in, the prison, and these men you send back here which is good. But some of your men run away, and you send them back an give them higher work than the men who stay here in prison. And you send many army men here and pay them more money than the other men here before the Japanese come. And I tell you that you do not give fair treatment with yourselves, how will you give fair treatment to other peoples.—Yours, &c.,