subjected to multiple visits from different education authorities due to its significance. The school opposed the Barnes Report, published in 1951. In an interview by Singapore Standard dated 16 September 1951, David Chen argued that the Barnes Committee (the committee behind the drafting of the Barnes Report), controversial for lacking in Chinese and Indian members, was "arbitrary and undemocratic". On the other hand, the school supported the Fenn-Wu Report, which proposed a more flexible education system that tolerated non-Malay vernacular schools. One of the draftees of the Fenn-Wu Report, Dr. Wu Teh Yao, was in fact an alumnus of the school (graduated 1936). Both draftees of the Fenn-Wu Report, Dr. William P. Fenn and Dr. Wu visited Chung Ling High School's campus between 15 and 17 March 1951 for the drafting of the education report. A separate visit was made on 26 May 1951 by E.E.C Thuraisingham, then the Minister of Education within the Communities Liaison Committee (CLC) and L.D. Whitfield, the chairman of the Barnes Committee. Malayan Emergency (1949–1952) The school's origins, notably the heavy political influence exerted by Kuomintang-sympathetic personnel on the school, garnered attention by members of the Malayan Communist Party (CPM) during the Malayan Emergency. Between 1949 and 1951, 2 teachers of the school were shot dead by unknown assailants – widely attributed to the members of the CPM. The assassinations ended with the death of David Chen, purportedly shot dead by CPM members. Assassination of Boey Eng Eng (1949) The first assassination occurred on 20 September 1949, when Boey Eng Eng (1900–1949), a retired teacher of the school, and a prominent leader of the Kuomintang-aligned Malayan Chinese Association (MCA, later Malaysian Chinese Association), was shot in the stomach at his residence by an unknown youth with a revolver. He was killed three hours after he was officially appointed an important position within the Penang branch of the political party. He died while on transit in a police van to the Penang General Hospital. Assassination of Chan Chong Yuk (1951) During the late-night of 21 October 1951, Chan Chong Yuk was shot dead on his trishaw by unknown snipers while returning to his apartment after a teachers' banquet. Prior to his death, his trishaw was followed by a youth riding a bicycle, tailgating him until his death near Kampung Kolam. He was shot in the head and died instantly. A funeral procession was held soon after