Hock Lee Bus Riots of May 1955 - Know your history

[elephanto]

Now the younger generation travel down Alexandra Rd,

on their left the new Dawson Estate with its 40-storey new HDB blocks with promises of more 'gardens-in-the-sky' BTO flats to come,

on their right, the glossy automobile showrooms of Komoco Motos, C & C etc.

Who could have imagine more than half a century ago, the Dawson flats site was where the Hock Lee Bus Depot & scene of the infamous riots ?

 

[Highfalutin]

Now the younger generation travel down Alexandra Rd,

on their left the new Dawson Estate with its 40-storey new HDB blocks with promises of more 'gardens-in-the-sky' BTO flats to come,

on their right, the glossy automobile showrooms of Komoco Motos, C & C etc.

Who could have imagine more than half a century ago, the Dawson flats site was where the Hock Lee Bus Depot & scene of the infamous riots ?

Saying thank you to Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP?

 

[elephanto]

Nabei, you donch raise my high blood pleasure, okie ?

 

[Highfalutin]

Nabei, you donch raise my high blood pleasure, okie ?

Walau! top of the line cars for you to buy and $600,000 valuation pigeon holes, who is complaining?:p

 

[Ah Guan]

Crafty Old Fox of course would leave no paper trail, no incriminating evidence, no personal witness account who can shout from the trees now ( the best person who could blow him out of the waters -LCS- is already dead etc).

There is one prominant Chinese towkay whom Old Man sent to Singapore embassy in Japan. Many old timers say he knows alot.

 

[Highfalutin]

There is one prominant Chinese towkay whom Old Man sent to Singapore embassy in Japan. Many old timers say he knows alot.

I think he will act bodoh if he is ever asked. He would have learned much from running thespian affairs.

 

[Ah Guan]

can't deny him his resilience, survival instinct, cunning and forethought - all the hallmarks of a promising dictator.

Old Man was not the first (in?)famous ruler to turn from left to right.

Once upon a time, there was a school teacher in Europe who was the lead editor for the Socialist newspaper in his country. After being wounded in WW1, he created Facism and even became Hilter's spiritual brother in WW2.

He was Benito Mussolini.

 

[kingrant]

There is one prominant Chinese towkay whom Old Man sent to Singapore embassy in Japan. Many old timers say he knows alot.

His name is Wee Mon Cheng.

 

[Ah Guan]

His name is Wee Mon Cheng.

Think that's him. I have to say again that it's only a rumour among some folks from his generation. Last heard, he's still not in sinkapore.

 

[scroobal]

Very sharp bro, as you know there is no such thing as an accidental rape. Anyone who was involved would know. Anyone who researched this event will come to exact same conclusion. And its not single source material, there multiple sources from Hansard, Straits Times, Singapore standard, Marshal, Police Officers etc.

When the PAP came into government, they were facing a hostile Civil Service, who knew full well the role this government had in sending Chinese middle school students to do their dirty work. To fix it, all Sr Civil servants had undergo a Political program at a bungalow in Goodwood Hill off Stevens Road. To appear neutral, they engaged a scotsman and history lecturer called Thompson and an ex communist Gerald DeCruz to run the program. Where the bullshit of fighting the communist from within came to be evolved.

Old man and his group were never communist. They certainly prodded the communist to maximise damage and make all other parties and the government of the day to look bad.

Love yr analogy. Indeed possible. But if nobody else knew, how come you know?

Don't tell me you were an old dog too? Hock Lee side or strikers'?

 

[scroobal]

Very sharp bro, as you know there is no such thing as an accidental rape. Anyone who was involved would know. Anyone who researched this event will come to exact same conclusion. And its not single source material, there multiple sources from Hansard, Straits Times, Singapore standard, Marshal, Police Officers etc.

When the PAP came into government, they were facing a hostile Civil Service, who knew full well the role this government had in sending Chinese middle school students to do their dirty work. To fix it, all Sr Civil servants had undergo a Political program at a bungalow in Goodwood Hill off Stevens Road. To appear neutral, they engaged a scotsman and history lecturer called Thompson and an ex communist Gerald DeCruz to run the program. Where the bullshit of fighting the communist from within came to be evolved.

Old man and his group were never communist. They certainly prodded the communist to maximise damage and make all other parties and the government of the day to look bad.

Love yr analogy. Indeed possible. But if nobody else knew, how come you know?

Don't tell me you were an old dog too? Hock Lee side or strikers'?

 

[scroobal]

Wee Mon Cheng - Thats his new name. He was the official representative of the Communist Party before the war. This story alone can write 2 books.

There is one prominant Chinese towkay whom Old Man sent to Singapore embassy in Japan. Many old timers say he knows alot.

 

[elephanto]

Wee Mon Cheng - Thats his new name. He was the official representative of the Communist Party before the war. This story alone can write 2 books.

After his ambassadorial post to Japan, he was back as Chairman of SBC.

Methinks there was a wiff of some financial impropriety, then he faded away from public eye.

Believed he has passed away.

 

[elephanto]

yes, passed away in 2003 at age 91 in HK, where he had settled down.
SBC Chairman (81-84). ex ambassador to Japan & Korea.Graduate of Amoy Univ 1935.

LKY wrote a condolence letter to his family on that occasion.
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[redlightmeansgo]

LOL everytime these incidents are mentioned. Whose version of history you talking about?

 

[QXD]

So a few heads got broken and a few drops of blood flowed, but in the eternal wisdom of our PAP:

"Lets Move On"

 

[scroobal]

He was charged and convicted for tax evasion and removed as SBC chairman. His son faced the similar charges.

His real name is Ng Leh Hu, the number 2 ranking Communist Leader after Chin Peng. Both Chin Peng and Old Man took great pains to have sudden amnesia when writing their respective memoirs. They had to change his name because he attended meetings with the British and other bodies prior to the war. During the war, he was seen coming in and out regularly from Oxley Rd house used by then Japanese intelligence.

I don't even think his wife and children know his past.

Methinks there was a wiff of some financial impropriety, then he faded away from public eye.

 

[streetcry]

厉狂妖毁伊录"第一章： 出卖战友 Betrayal (The 1st chapter of a notorious book)

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[kingrant]

Ya, he was George G Thompson and the centre was called Political Science Centre. Gerald de cruz also had a few sessions in RI during their school assembly. That was when it was still at Bras Basah Rd under Jesudason.

It all makes sense. None of the other parties looked and acted like they were the types to cause trouble. Old Man outlasted everyone because when things got heated, he stayed anon in the backgrd; when credit was to be taken, he charged fwd. He manipulated Tengku and British into positions where he became Hobson's choice, and played on their fears to cast the ISA on his allies.

Very sharp bro, as you know there is no such thing as an accidental rape. Anyone who was involved would know. Anyone who researched this event will come to exact same conclusion. And its not single source material, there multiple sources from Hansard, Straits Times, Singapore standard, Marshal, Police Officers etc.

When the PAP came into government, they were facing a hostile Civil Service, who knew full well the role this government had in sending Chinese middle school students to do their dirty work. To fix it, all Sr Civil servants had undergo a Political program at a bungalow in Goodwood Hill off Stevens Road. To appear neutral, they engaged a scotsman and history lecturer called Thompson and an ex communist Gerald DeCruz to run the program. Where the bullshit of fighting the communist from within came to be evolved.

Old man and his group were never communist. They certainly prodded the communist to maximise damage and make all other parties and the government of the day to look bad.

 

[kingrant]

He was mentioned in Chin Peng's book.

Wee Mon Cheng - Thats his new name. He was the official representative of the Communist Party before the war. This story alone can write 2 books.