his death. Communist infiltration within students On 18 March 1950, nearly 17,200 pamphlets, published by the CPM, titled "Truth" were discovered by the police. The pamphlets were distributed to classrooms. A student was sentenced to 18 months in prison on 22 June 1950 after police found documents and newspapers that were affiliated to the CPM in his living quarters. On 27 January 1951, Communist posters, written in Chinese, were found in dormitories and classrooms. Teachers and students were interrogated by the authorities. On 10 February 1951, pamphlets were found in the school which were handed over to the police. On 30 October 1951, over 100 Communist pamphlets were found in several classrooms. Some of them were related towards the recent assassination of Chan Chong Yuk, killed on 21 October 1951, 9 days earlier. The pamphlets portrayed Chan as "a Kuomintang-agent". A man, suspected to be part of the Min Yuen, was arrested at Tanjung Tokong the day after in relation to the discovery. Assassination of David Chen (1952) On 4 February 1952, David Chen was assassinated while seated at the driver's seat of his car, parked at the junction between Macalister Road and Lorong Selamat. The incident took place opposite of the campus of the Fukien Girls' School (later Penang Chinese Girls' High School, where their campus at Macalister Road was formally moved to Gottlieb Road in 1956). He was on his way to a meeting at the office of the Chinese Teacher's Association of Penang nearby, accompanied by Yong Oui Seng, another teacher of the school. The assassin rode his bicycle towards his stationary car and shot his head with a pistol. He was instantly killed. Commotion erupted around the scene where the lone assassin escaped among the confusion of the crowd. A former pupil nearby, realising his former headmaster had been shot, drove the car, along with Yong and Chen's body to the hospital. He was pronounced dead on arrival. David Chen's death became headline news in Malaya and Singapore throughout the rest of 1952 and 1953. It triggered widespread shock and paranoia among the local Chinese population of both Penang and Malaya. The Penang police responded shortly after by launching one of the largest manhunts in the city's history to locate and arrest the killers. His body was laid in state at the Huai-ze Hall on 7 February 1952. Over 4000 students, both former and present alike,