MALAYSIA BIRTH PAINS THE SUSPECTS NEVER SLEPT IN THE SAME HOUSE ON 
SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS . MANY HAD THEIR PHOTOS IN AN " ARREST 
ON SIGHT " MUG FILE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS . TO AVOID 
DETECTION ON SINGAPORE'S TEEMING STREETS, THEY SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME 
IN LATENIGHT MOVIE HOUSES . BUT LAST WEEK THE DRAGNET WAS 
OUT . SWEEPING THROUGH THE ISLAND STATE, GOVERNMENT SECURITY POLICE ROUNDED 
UP 115 PRO-COMMUNIST SUBVERSIVES AND LABOR AGITATORS OPPOSED TO SINGAPORE'S INCLUSION, 
WITH MALAYA AND BRITAIN'S BORNEO DEPENDENCIES OF SARAWAK, BRUNEI AND NORTH 
BORNEO, IN A PROPOSED MALAYSIAN FEDERATION OF 10 MILLION PEOPLE . 
AS MALAYSIA'S BIRTH DATE DRAWS NEARER, INDONESIA'S PRESIDENT SUKARNO IS DOING 
ALL HE CAN TO PREVENT IT . HIS GOVERNMENT CONTINUALLY BLUSTERS 
ABOUT INTERVENING MILITARILY IN BRITISH BORNEO . AUTHORITIES IN SINGAPORE FEARED 
THAT LOCAL COMMUNISTS MIGHT TRY TO SABOTAGE BRITISH BASES ON THE 
ISLAND IN ORDER TO HAMPER BRITISH RETALIATION IN BORNEO . SUKARNO 
IS ALSO MAKING MUSCLES AGAINST MALAYA, WHICH WOULD BE THE DOMINANT 
STATE IN THE NEW FEDERATION . DJAKARTA HAS EXCLUDED MALAYAN FISHERMEN 
FROM THEIR TRADITIONAL FISHING GROUNDS OFF THE COAST OF SUMATRA . 
AN INDONESIAN GUNBOAT RECENTLY SANK A FULLY LADEN RUBBER BARGE INSIDE 
MALAYAN TERRITORIAL WATERS . INDONESIA KNOWS THAT A PRO-WESTERN, ANTI-COMMUNIST FEDERATION 
WOULD PUT A SERIOUS CRIMP IN SUKARNO'S AMBITION TO ABSORB OIL-RICH 
BRUNEI AND ITS TWO NEIGHBORS . HE ALSO IS ANXIOUS AS 
USUAL FOR AN ISSUE TO DEFLECT MOUNTING PUBLIC CRITICISM OVER INDONESIA'S 
GROWING ECONOMIC CRISIS . FEARING THAT SUKARNO IS ITCHING TO START 
SOMETHING, MALAYA'S PRIME MINISTER TUNKU (PRINCE) ABDUL RAHMAN APPEALED TO LONDON 
FOR REINFORCEMENTS . THE BRITISH OBLIGINGLY PUT 2,000 CRACK TROOPS ON 
A 72-HOUR ALERT TO REINFORCE ITS SOUTHEAST ASIA FORCES, BECAUSE OF 
" THE POSSIBILITY OF OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE . " THE PHILIPPINES ARE 
ALSO COVETOUS OF NORTH BORNEO . AT A MEETING IN LONDON, 
THE PHILIPPINES MAINTAINED THAT IN 1878 THE FILIPINO SULTAN OF SULU 
HAD ONLY " LEASED " NORTH BORNEO TO THE BRITISH AND 
THAT THE LAND ACTUALLY STILL BELONGED TO THE FILIPINO GOVERNMENT . 
BEHIND THE CLAIM IS THE FEAR THAT MALAYSIA WOULD NOT BE 
ABLE TO PREVENT LEFTISTS IN THE FEDERATION AND IN INDONESIA FROM 
MAKING NORTH BORNEO A COMMUNIST ENCLAVE HARD BY THE PHILIPPINES' OUTER 
ISLANDS . THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS ARDENTLY BEHIND MALAY'S PLANS 
FOR MALAYSIA, STIFFLY REJECTED THE PHILIPPINE CLAIM, GAVE NOTICE THAT IT 
WOULD PUSH FOR THE FINAL CREATION OF THE NEW NATION BY 
AUG . 31 . 