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ON DEFENSIVE Republican Troops Drive To Within 12 Miles Of Madiun
FALL OF CITY IMMINENT
Batavia, September 23.
A state of siege has been declared in Republican-held East Java where fighting with the Communists is taking place, the Re: publican. news agency, Antaro, reported tonight.
The Indonesian Republican military headquarters on Jogjakarta hove declared it a special mili- tory arca and have appointed General Soeng- kono, commander of the Republican forces there, as Military Governor. Indonesian Republican troops, driving forward in three columns, today pushed the Communists back to within 121⁄2 miles of their East Java stronghold of Madiun, the agency reported. The military faithorities in arienst oltaris mal stay on the Jogjakarta, the Repubbean offracase," todos enpital, expressed cordlence, marted law had been povlanned
a the Machan district. would soon be that Madini
Besides Magan, i recaptured. the Communists still enrol part of Magelan, to the West. and part of Ponorogo, to the South, Anticra zcicied
a nearby railway forestatter
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Last Bridge
\
Trieste, September 23. The news agency Astra to. day reported that Marabul Tito ascaped an assassination attempt maile today while he was motoring In Yugoslavia.
The report anld, "Partiaan elements mined the bridge
WAS
ox-
oss which Tito Across pected to pass during his re- cent vialt to Dalmatin, but the plot was broken up."— United Prose. -
All Guards In Malaya Trained
he
Condon. September 23. |United States of Indonesia was
War Minister, Mr. "only a theam "
Shinwell, tonight The people had asked for an Emanuel extension of the Republie for- denied that some of the Guards eign affats, but the fatta love men sent to Malaya recently eunu ert rought only to maintak had only had few weeks'
israel existing relations
had training. a "beneficial" agreement
Iz
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Now Resort To Guerilla Tactics
Rangoon, September 23.
Four Communist loaders and 36 others were killed in an encounter at Toungoo, on the railway midway between Rangoon and Mandalay, a Burmese Government communique tonight stated.
It also reported minor actions of Insein, in the outer suburbs of Rongoon, and the Henzado district in the Irrawady Delta.
The Burmese Government's During the past week, com- battle against the insurgents, frst time sizeable clashes in the muniques have reported for the
including the
he Red Flag and
Arakan Division of Western While Fing Communists, hás Burma-scene of prime of the 14th Lehanged its pattern since the Army's, grimmest battles against
réenpture of Prome.
the Jupancic during the war.
Navy Strikes
Clashes Continuo
In one clash in Arakan, Gor Daily clashes continue to be ernment troom Pre reported to com-have killed more than 100 insur- reported in Government
uniques, but since the Govern~gents. ment has had this communication Communiques have also report. rentre, North West of Rangoon, ed the loss und recapture hy back in their hands, there has Government troops of a number been no clearly delined battle of ownlets in the fertile rice- front.
growing Irrawady Delta area, where network uf waterways tavany an insurgent type of wor- fare.
Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, Conserva with Hussan.
the live, had said, during a debate on The longest gap between
the House of Com- people and the Batin Government | defence in
Prnment Balto's unwillingness to mons, that a great number of flav xus 1, divide land among the people, he Guardsmen recently sent to Ma- laya had only a few weeks' train- ing and some and not completed their weapon training.
Legal flint said.
The Dutch Army today con-
Gomed that the hodies of two Dutch soldiers, literally cut to piece with native knives, had been found in West Java
That th
Link With Moscow
was reported tonight senior Republican Ministers were to form a special vommittee to assist the President
the Re putlu, De 1. Soekarno, to wxercise full powers during the emergency created by the Com mamist coups
Atill NE colares WIN
on September
Republican furee, were fighting; off the rebels trying to seize the arrochar at Marols, six mates jaby when Exand
In Ngak, 1 bait zum Coon afterwards. They East Machuan.
they | were brædder at single patrol van centre.
14 when ambushed Communist drive Sepni bay
and captured and distsittied bral members of 1 Borin20st Youth Movement
17 Ama Sparfogeurlan. fter Soet Hoe Minister
Megorie Zurbotiesbade
Cornumist-contruffed
Cut To Pieces
1111
ou the speditor
The Communist-controller radio) ov at Marlton, which lasi night Man Bant tonight, said that broadlenst a wall the stupipop lasts operation 39 140 throughout Incleavesia 16 guard Army
ultants
121
the Dutch a The pri poserii
SERIOUS SPLIT
IN HUK RANKS
Manila, September 24,
As the combined Constabulary and Army forces in- tensified pressure on the Hukbalahaps trapped in the Candaba Swamps, reports from Nueva Ecija said a serious split in Hukbalahap ranks there was threatening to flare up in a bloody factional fight among Nueva Ecija dissidents.
of
dissidents
EFC allegedly stemmed sentence passed coleman-
At the same time, an unconcentrations firmed report said a few thou-operating sand Huks were in mass retreat from the fleath from their stronghold in Mount by Jose de Leon, tuk Arayat in Pampanga and op- in chief in Nueva Ecil, to parently were heading for the mountains of Zambales,
President Soekarno araci the Proner. Dr Hatta, conferred to- any with the Hepublican Army Commander-in-Chief, General Surdanin,
Challenger by Mr. Shinwell to give evidence to support his - legation. Mr. Lyttleton said that
had been told by serving offerrs of the Brigade of Guards, described Mr. Mr. Shinwell Lyleton's allegations ox' un- founded art astonishing.
"I have the highest respect for the Cuneds. But there is nothing gaertsanct
about them or any reason why there should be such about the Guards a bullabaloo regiments being sent to Malaya. The return to Indonesia of It was done on expert advice.
lander, the Communist
Mund.
"Of the after 23
of Guards Belgide Russla, to years in
only 400 were gether with Dr. Speripno. for seat to Malaya,
The majarily were Indonesian Republicanuscripts. merly representative in, Prague, la the regular members Brat clear proof of the linkind not a single man was sent to between Moscow and the Com- Malayu without having had munist-led quialinge in South least six months basic training." East Aale, authoritative
quar-Reuter.
ters Bald here today.
That there are S41 Inks-
probably tess direct-between | Meow and the Communist par- ties of the South East Aslan countries other than Indonesia [221 only be
the driluced from sequence of events over the past [year.
Unut a year ago, the general policy of the Communists of South East Aslu was, on the sur- face at least, to co-operate clase-
the Nationalist ly with Iments, for which they were to į supply the dynamic
force".
Frosh Directive
move-
of the forces
FORTUNE AND 11 BODIES IN WRECKED PLANE
#t
The Insurgents have resorted t guerilla tactics, striking at Gov- positione, disrupting communications, burning villages Burma Nava patrol boats have and looting treasuries and rice strunk hard at the insurgents in shops as opportunity offers and the, Delta, Bring from the stream the withdrawing to their lates or sending landing parties asberr in the steaming, inir-sonked to ferret out insurgent nests of Fingles.
esistance.
the
The Government now control Disturbances reported in other two trunk railways from Ran-parts of
Country Include goon Northwards to the temple localised
communit inckienis
Westwards to Prome,
city of Mancialay and North- which are separate from the main
But trafic Communist inflated insurrection. Is occasionally halted when In- The situation, however, was surgents blow up bridges and the regarded as sufficiently serious rnilway tracks.
for the Burinese President, Sno The Government have estab- {Shwe Thaik, to announce a slate tished repair garga at strategic of emergency throughout Burma. points along the line.
-Reuter.
NATIONALISTS LOSE
MANCHURIAN TOWNS
S.
Peiping, September 24.
The Communists returned to the attack against the Peiping-Mukden railroad and captured throo towns South of the Great Wall, man- made frontier between China proper and Monchuria.
The towns were listed 45 Ihsien itself is belag sporadically Changi, Anstan and Shihmen, shelled by the Communists.
miles Changit is 40
from the wall and the other two points are a little farther South.
All three previously were lost and regained by the Nationalists,
two
ago hadden. boasted that the Communists were
who
Only
no days
Latest developments
The capture of Insien is neces- sary in the supposed Communist plan to isolate Chinhsien, which tately has been a vital point in the airlifting of supplies to Muk- These supplies are landed at Hulutao, only Nationalist-heir'
in Manchuria. scaport
There were further reports of suggests Communist concentrations around
Portland, Oregon,
September 23. of 11 men and a The bodies driving fortune in gold bullion and cur-
rency were reported to have been In general retreat and the ra found in the wackage of a Unit-way was being repaired. ed States transport plane which had been missing for five years that the Communists are deter-Tatung, coal and communications mountains of North mined to keep the Nationalist centre in Northern Shans), Inten- In this their strategy was in the
sive Nationalist recruiting is said Western Canada. similar to German occupation and
to be in progress in the adjoining the post-liberation period. The
province of Suiyuan, presumably Meanwhile, operations gunst Leon's ranks and raided the Huk change came a year ago. Shortly telephoned her
because # Communist threat far ps general
Cominform that a ground
would develop i Tatung fell.-- Associated Press.
the Huks Panashan Province,
extended IN
where
Buk officer for abduction.
After the execution, relatives of the officer seceded from
do
headquarters
town
of
after
Warsaw live
Jian
the Abage, resulting in a heavy balle meeting of September. 1947, call/a C-47 Dakota and had dug bul-way almost at will. Constabulary was reported to be in which both factions sustained edt on the Communist parties to ion and currency from the snow shelgemeentration of about undetermined casualties. 1,000 Huks on the outskirts
Buks
the town of Uminaga
rift between
'The
Nueva Ecija,
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abandon the old Popular
land corridor to Manchuria rup- H. Smith said her husband tured.
her from Edmonton It also shows the Communists party had reached are capable of cutting the rail- Meanwhile, small-scale fighting and put it untier guard, prepara-continued in the Manchurian acc- Froni
Pro- tactics and to assume openly theory to turning it ever to the au- tion of the railway zone.
thorities.
Government reports claimed the 13 Leon why one of the top-romant role, an "Eastern Com-
Nationalists killed more than 300 The plane was presumed to be a took advan-inform" was initiated at a meet- ranking fluks who
which
South- disap-Communists in a clash Dakota transport tage of the amnesty proclamation, ing at Harbin,
West of Hsingcheng, a town 05 but later went back to the eli
the peared on February 5, 1943, on a
wartime fight from British Co- miles inside Manchuria. when the amnesty appeareil to South East Asian countries are lumbia to the Yukon territory. Nationalist Stronghold
belleved to have attended and ben failure.
At that time it was reported received a fresh directive on
plane carried their relations with the nation.
US$500,000 to pay Army alist movements of their coun
in troops Alaska. tries.
U.S. Air Furce officials in Washington did not confirm the report, but said they vestigating.
continuous
Representatives
Butaan Pro. Į Sjaritounexpected
from
that the
some
were in-
A large number were also sali
PASSENGERS TAKEN FROM WRECKED SHIP
Miami, September 24.
Six passengers have been taken to be killed in engagement Ave | from the Brkish freighter Loch- miles North of Chinhsien, 40 monar grounded off "Little Cay- miles farther and most important man Island, but the crew of 67
in Man-remain on board the ship. Nationalist stronghold churia after Mukden. No cs- The steamship Caymarin took timate was given.
the passengers off on Wednesday Several thousand Communista en route to Kingston, Jamaica. were reported
The tug Curb is standing by highway between Chinhsten and for salvage operations.Associated Ihsten, 30 miles to the North. Press,
Cabanatuan, provincial capital of Nueva Ecija, has been placeri under Constabulary control due to from the an emergency arising
Muse and the local Communist Tous pouring in of village people fleeing from Huk-Consta-lender Alimin, have succeeded in bulary encounters. Several mur-tuking with them into opposition ders occurred reevally hi villages und revolt a number of important The wreck was discovered 200
the to occupy Indonesian Socialists, notably Dr. miles north of Fort St. John, 20 around Cabanatuan. The Governor of
miles from Tucsode Lake. vince has asked President Quirino One
may United Press. for the establishment of an work for the Republic, these evacuee camp in Bataan, saying quarters believed. The Indonesian the result of Central Luzon opera-Government hos just released Uons was that
numerous civilians from imprisonment Tan Malakka, and also Buk remnants
werc #former Communisi fleeing to Bataan.
The Constabulary continued to be silent on detalls of the Can- dabn operations, but press reports
One
factor
leader and un associate of Muso. He is nove known to be a Trotskyist in bitter opposition to the ofcial party line.
indiented heavy shelling of the Tan Malakka may yet. it is Huk bustion WAS continuing thought, cause serious, trouble to under the direction Aerial Muso and his group, which is spotters-United Press.
now, dirccling the revolt,--Reuter.
LIKE WILD WEST BUT HORSES ARE MISSING
Kuala Lumpur, September 24. The picturesque frontier days of America's Wild West have reappeared in this capital of the Malayan Federation..
Gun-toting is now part of the, ing our shop with a gun was a daily costume, sometimes dubbed potential robber" one manager the "new look," since Commun- said, "we would never do any 1st-led insurgents opened their business these reétle days." campaign in the Malayan penin-
sula.
Cars Instead.
Invited to a home on the out- skirts of Kuala Lumpur, you no longer Grst greet your host with a friendly handshake. Insigad, to No longar is it uncommon
"Hello, you frat Bay
there. walch men saunter through
Where shall I put my gun.” bar doors with two swinging pistols strapped to their hips. Armed Correspondents
The only things missing ore the boracs.
After the gun-disposal coro- mony, you start with the "curto-
Instead, these rubber planters mary pleasantries between guest and tin miners drive up in cars, and host.
with the windows down and the For travelling purposes, the anout of a rifle pointing out.
Nor is it uncommon to watch
a young couple walk into a large department store while carrying a rifle.
gun
has replaced the proverbial toothbrush in Malaya.
Even correspondents, noted for their scrupulous neutrality in all clashes, carry, guns. Rules of
Store managerą tako no notice. warfare do not apply in guerilla '. “If we thought'everyone enters | campalgia,--Ualted" Pross."
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