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Saturday to discuss economic ald to Indonesia was believed to have caused the Dutch to call off plans for launching military operations against the Indonesian Republic on Monday. The United States, in an "aide memoire," urge the Indonesian Republic to "cooperate without delay" in the immediate, formation of an in- terim federal government, and added that the United States was ready to talk about econo- mic help to such a government when it is es- tablished.
The note stresses that the Dutch Commissioner Hubertus Indonesians should accept Van Mook to consult with In- Butch sovereignty In the indonesian President Sukarno. terim government unti! Jan, 1:
ATTACK ORDER Snakes
Alive!
DENIED
The liugue, June 28. The Dutch Overseas Terri tory Ministry today denied any knowledge of an order of the day, said to have open toxued by the Dutch Fur Enst Commander-in-Chief, ordering an "attack og att fronte" on Monday. From
"Á the very moat," the Ministry said, "there reports refer to documents on pro
SELECENTER about paratory which no decision that they
brew will be executed han taken."-Reuter.
You can quote me as being Durbar In
Rangoon
19-49, when) 1111 independent optimistic." Budjardjo sai..
He reportedly will ask Pre- United States of Indonesia is seheduled to take form. This aldent Sukarno for written con- will has been a major unsettled is-firmation that Indonesia
ne between the Dutch and In-be willing to accept Dutch so- vereignty and power of decision donesians.
United
were
Rangoon, June 28. Sir Hubert Hance, Governor of Bumn, distributed ewords and A reliable informant discios in the interim government,
The authorities said Budjard-honours to British and Burmese the contents of the Ameri-
Mook officials at Government House to- eap note soon after an Indone jo had given Dr. van
day at the first Durbar to be held sian National Army spokesman such verhal assurances.
Dutch officiala today called ajsince the war. brondenst what he said was an
Indian and Burmese decorations infererpted order from Lieuten-conference at the palace attend-
l-ticneral Siem Spoor to his ed by four high ranking In-conferred during the war
nino awarded at the Durbar. attack donesian officials: w Netherlands forces to
Mr. Justice W.A. Wright of the "on all fronts" at zerd hour of Press.
Rangoon Court became a Com. Although Li
Monday. (121
panion of the Order of the Influn Mook,
Rosyth, June 28. Spanty and 14. J. van
Empire, and Captain K.S. Lyle, A United States naval squa- commanding officer of the Royal Dutch Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, denied dron of nine ships led by the Naval such an order, there was con-battleship New Jersey exchanged Home vincing evidence that Monday salutes with the British
the Firth actually had been designated to Fleet today in
"D-Day" In Java.
Forth when it left for a train- The Indonesian Army spokes-lug cruise to Scandinavian ports. man said instructions had been-United Press. issard to Nationalist troops to etenter-attack without further
moment the word the
Dutch
opened any offensive.--A890-
ciated Press.
Hague Reaction
The Hague. June 29.
re- An authoritative source
that the ported last night United States' note to the Re- urging pub'ie of 'Indonesia BgLerment with the Dutch terms for n interim government in the Eust Indies was "much up- preciate" by the Netherlands Government,
There anent on
was no
official com-
of
2123
London, June 20 With twa glant pythons desi |
for the tined
London Zoo board, H.M.S. Fernitula, which has just completed two years of service with the British Pacific Fleet in the Far Enst, docked nt Devonport last week.
were
The snakes, which travelled in erates in one of the gun turrets,
to "guaranteed"
sleep throughout the voyage. But week before the cruiser arrived in England, one of the pythons woke up and became restive. Captain C.D.
Howard-Johnston
gave instructions that two ve rats were required for the sanke's Jations. The physical training instructor un board became the rat catcher nud the python's ration was hurriedly dropped into its crate. After devouring one rot, the anake siept peacefully for the remainder of the journey, L.P.S.
Phosphate Fertiliser For Japan
of rock Volunteer Reserves Burma, was awarded a CBE.
According to a recent decision of the Burmese Executive Counell, Burmese official honours will be
In the discontinued
future
Reuter,
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
AND CHINA
Nanking, June 29.
United States, authorisation for China to pur- chase milltary 'supplies from America, in effect, means an application of the Truman doctrine to China, a high-ranking member of the Government stated in an Interview with Reuter today.
the American note. He which also pledged considera- tion of financial aid to the in-
the dies, but
Information source said a special all-night cabinet meeting was held-after the contents of the note were made known here.
Another cabinet session was held on Saturday afternoon for a discussion of the Indonesian situation-Asociated Press.
Breathing Space
Batavia, June 20.
the United The full text of States State Department's note delivered today is being taken to President Soekarno 'nt Jogjakarta tomorrow.
welcomed the United States action, as have other Government officials, and declared that it is of "political significance.' He stated that American aid offered to China up to the pre- sent time has been of an economic nature for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country.
Tokyo, June 28. Operation of The phosphate
project
the on Angunt, former Japanese mandated island, has been progressing for over a your to supply Japan with the required fertiliser to increase in
genaus food production, and to reduce the amount of United States „appropriated funds auired to meet the food defell in Japan.
rt.
This statement was made by a spokesman
General Mac. Arthur's headquarters lodny in reply to an American · agency's despatch from London quoting a British Foreign Office spokesman as saying: "General MacArthur did not consult the For Eastern Commission or the British Gov. ernment before authorising this Japanese operation,"
This spokesman sald that the operation was originally authorl- sed by the Fertiliser Committee of the Combined Food Board-an international body on which the British Government was reffe. I sented,
He added that an Anguor was the United States captured by forces and is under United States control, there is as question as in the propriety of their utilising the Indigenous resurces of the istant to meet the vital needs of
occupation -öt Japan.
Allled
the Reuter.
recently
The lifting of the arms embargo long been 'short of ammunition, is an act springing from political especially in Manchuria," he said. considerations hitherto avolded, Some political observers have he added. It can be interpreted predicted that the Washington
announcement will, influence as the beginning of an application of the Truman doctrine to China, National Government to order A
punitive campaign continued, and represents a he
the against reversal-dictated by the chang- Communiata,
*lеp a ing world scene of Ideals held by widely advocated here. the Secretary of State, Mr. There is a possibility that thi Marshall to stop tho delivery of matter will be discussed
tomur- arms to China last year, when row, when Generallasimo Chiang attempted to effect a truce be- Kai-shek is scheduled to preside tween the Nationalista
And
tha
over a joint meeting of the Cen- Communials,
tral Political Council and the Cen- that tral Executive Committee of the Kuomintang to discuss the Com- mynist problem,
Neutral observers describe it na a breathing space in Indonesia's
It is correct, he added, still critical political situation.
States foreign polley 22-page document the United
the should pay increasing attention State Department requests Indonesiart Bepublie to cooperate to Asia as this region contains a without delay in the formation of far greater threat to world peaco
Federal Interim Government In than Europe.
A 10 Government official ex- becordance with Dulch proposals
Premier
radio Pressed the opinion that the new und
Sjahrir's
United States nolley followed too speech, and promises financial aid quickly on the heels of the state.
'Press Reaction
Lo the Federal Government torments from such Chinese lenders, expressing unqualified approval reconstruction when it is estabas Dr. Sun Fo, for it to be based of Washington's action.
lished.
"Strong Brother" Required
Tokyo, June 29. Inkakimi Misel, formerly head of one of the largest Zai- batau concerns, said Japan in the near future must have n "strong brother to protect her All China's leading pro-Govern-interests and it is logical for the United Statos' to Raume ment newspapera in Nanking and Shanghai carried editoria's today that rale.
He told the United Press In an interview he hoped the pre- A typical comment was that in on these pronouncements.
the widely read "Shun Pao," the dominantly- American occupa- A copy. It is understood, was Rather, Washington's decision,
modification of oldest paper in Shanghai, whleh tion force would remain in Ja- also hunded the Dutch representing a
to
the United States pan for five years after the asserted that President Truman's China policy decision represents a triumph fur peace treaty in order to serve Reuter.
as announced in 1945, results Precautions In
thuse "farsighted politicians in as a stabilizing force. from a close and long observation
the United States who believe that Mitsui, who now lives in a Batavia
of the political and military' de-
the serious crisis in the Far Eastamall wooden frame house on Batavia, June, 28, velopments in China.
of Tokyo with Dutch guards in front of the He indicated that the lifting of necessitates a positive American
four children and two acrvants, Dutch
Military bulldings In the arms embargo will ameliorate policy in that part of the world." the outskirts
paper added that it looks Batavia have been reinforced, and the disappointment which
**If the United States is-doter- spends most of his time garden- average Chinese have felt upon must persons wanting to enter
hearing that China's $500.000.000 mined to have a peaceful, uniteil, ing and reading. He has no Immediate business although show their Identity cards, the Export-Import Bank crest pro-democratle and strong China as a
under the SCAP directive Dutch Official News Agency an-ably will be allowed to expire on stabilizing factor in the Far East.
would be permissible for him, nounced tonight.-Reuter.
to embark on a minor commer- cial career.United Press.
GREECE ACCUSED
Mortar Fire
June 30.
bad sign."
"Bad Sign"
the
Reuter.
ΠΑΡΟ
WAVE OF Batavia, June 28. Not alosely following the loan
PROTESTS A Dutch communique report developments or analyeing the
Hamburg, June 28.
time German double summer. et today that mortar fire from problem, the Chinese public sees
ends tomorrow, Just 40 days Republican Army positions along news of the loan expiration an the Indonesian demarcation line. To his knowledge, China has after the Allied Control Council killed a. Dutch soldier and not applied to the United States in Berlin had, imposed the order, of protests from wounded
during for a political loans. The feeling is after a four more skirmishes in the past week. evident
here that the sale of politicians, farmers, docters and -The communique Bald thin 130,000,000 rounds of surplus trade unionists.
News of the withdrawal of the minor fighting took place near rifle anniunition is of less long-
received with cart- North Sumatra. range importance than the open order was
ing of the United States market siderable satisfaction, by the Ger for other milltary suppiles, prú man people who asserted that it War Avolded": vided China can muster aufficient interfered drastically with normal serious foreign exchange and transports-living and would have Ratavia, Jund 20.
resuita Reuter, Reliable Indonesian Kources An official of the Ministry of bluntly said the "note has avold-| National Defence stated today that the ammunition is not suf- "The United States has taken fielent in quantity to
Medan in United Press.
.
ed war in the Indies."
tion.
have any
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Sofia. June 28.` Bulgarin has protested to the
Control Allied against three incidentis alleged to have taken place on the Bul garian Greek frontier in June, the Bulgarian news agency unid today.
The agency said that soldiers twice fired from Greek torri. tory against Bulgarian frontier. posts, and on a third occasion 12 Greck soldiers, with bomba and machineguna, attacked and looted a farm on Bulgarlan ter- allory near the Greek frontier. -Reuter.
NEW INDIAN. PASSPORT ain active stand at last," one in- decisive influence on the butcom
New Delhi, June 28.. He said ja The new Indian passport will formant-naidho Amaricanor China's civil war.
tha next few note requesting the immediate that, according to his calculations, be ready within
would it
last roughly thres wooks. Except for, the omission establishment of an interim gov months, bat he did not reveal how from the cover of the Britised men ambushed à United
ernment or no American loans
to Indonesians or Dutch is rea- he arrived at this figura. sonable."
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Better Than Nothing The first break in the tenso "Anything is better than political and, military situation
the nothing," he added. From came today when All Budjardjo, point of view of the Government Secretary-General of the In the chief result of the sale: Iso donesian delegation, left for "Infame the fighting spirit of the Jogjakaria at the request of soldiers at the front who have
Mánllà, June 29. An unidentified band of arm-
Empire coat of arms, it is ex: States Army jeep on Friday: pected to be similar to the present night 45 road milen, northwest British Indian passport.
of Manila and killed the four- The Government is also 'con-work-old child of Medical Corps widering the future via policy, Captain, Irvin Hough, the Army which, it understood, will allory free and easy access to all for announced. Plough and sign nationals subject to con-wife were wounded-Associat siderations of escurlty-Reutered Press.
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