Thirty minutes later, Phin Soon's manager John Allison and his assistant Ian Christian were tied and killed by the communists.

On 13 July 1950, Inspector Ralph Lewis Inder of the Malay Police was attacked by insurgents and died at Ipoh Hospital.

Boris Hembry was a planter and in his book entitled "Malaysian Spymaster: Memoirs Of A Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter And Spy", he wrote, "It would appear that early on that morning, communist terrorists had slashed a lot of young rubber trees on Dovenby.

"[4] Another attack was planned on a fourth European estate nearby, however, this failed because the target's jeep broke down making him late for work.

Under these measures, the colonial government outlawed the Malayan Communist Party and began mass arresting thousands of trade unions and left-wing activists.