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*:[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3331 ''Some Principles of Policemanship''] by Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne 1938 Singapore. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only.*:[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2677 ''Singapore : A Police Background''] by Rene Onraet 1947. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Catalogued as an autobiography. The author was Inspector-General of the Straits Settlement Police between 1935 and 1939. Probably sample pages only.
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*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 ''Singapore Patrol''] by Alec Dixon, 1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police postwar was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): ''Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya''. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19351206-1.2.71.aspx Review] ''The Straits Times'', 6 December 1935 gov.sg. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17223115 Review] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (NSW) 14 Dec 1935
*[https://archive.org/details/returntomalaya006324mbp ''Return to Malaya''] R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910. Also includes references to Singapore.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition''. HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmenforget011687mbp/page/n305/mode/2up "Singapore 1941-1942"], Chapter Eighteen, page 289 ''Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich)'' 1954. Archive.org. Cooper was sent by Churchill, with Cabinet rank, "to enquire into the various forms of civil administration" and later, for a period was Resident Cabinet Minister authorised to form a War Council.
