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Ipoh During Two Wars And After
"Ipoh During Two Wars And After", this particular article contains a write up on how Ipoh developed into becoming the growing capital of tin, rubber and iron rich Perak. Early developments of this capital strangely began during the Japanese military administration which gave Ipoh the impetus to grow.
A few short weeks after the close of the Malayan campaign in early 1942, the Japanese transferred the Perak state capital from Taiping to Ipoh, bringing to this town many departments and their staffs.
This change in status, however did not have any particular significance during the occupation period and when the returning British civil administration retained Ipoh as the state capital, things looked promising.
The two wars that the article was referring to was the Second World War which was during the Japanese Occupation and the Malayan Emergency, which began after the murder of the 3 planters in Sungei Siput. The article pushes on after the two wars and talks about how Ipoh is flourishing in the year 1962 (as this article was published in 1962).
It also contained a short write up entitled; "The 1941-45 period: looting followed war and then came inflation. In Ipoh, the bank weighed currency by the sackful because the notes were worth so little. Then, peace." This short write up talks about the times during the Japanese occupation to the events of the Surrender in 1945 which also highlights on Mrs. Sybil Kathigasu.
This article was picked out from Ipoh: The Town That Tin Built, where a scanned copy of this particular book was generously donated to us by Kah Heng Poon who resides in New Jersey.
To read more about Ipoh: The Town That Tin Built, click here.
To read more about Sybil Kathigasu, click here.
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