Claude Fenner in Ah Hai' s prersonal memory

Ah Hai actually knew Sir Claude Fenner, the first Inspector-General of Police of "independent" Malaya from 1958 to 1966, quite well, both as a colonial police officer who tried to locate and detain him in the late 1930s as a "subversive", and also an ally in the last stage of the Anti-Fascist War in Negeri Sembilan where Ah Hai led the guerrilla forces, formed and operated by the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which was the only party that chose to stay behind with the people and also patriots of all races to fight the occupiers from the beginning to end.

Poor migrant boy with self-betterment spirit