GUERILLAS ACTIVE
IN JAVA, SUMATRA
Churches Back Java Action
Amsterdam, February 2. Aamup of church leaders derlaced today that the recent Dutch conquest of Indonesia is the only reasonable step the Dutch Government could have taken under the present clr-
“The dueměli Vía máig by Executive Members of the Tater unitona! Come of Christ- Bts Charchi, who met here to dienes event declaration of
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Batavia, February 2-
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A Dutch military review said today that guorillas continued attacks throughout Java and Sumatra all through the past wook.
It said guerillas hammered at road traffic and in-
terfered with industry.
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The Army reported progress tion ordering the Dutch to re- In mopping úp operations lease captured Republican lead against Indonesian Republicans ers and to help them re-estab- except in Northern Sumatra'sish their Government- Atjus Mountains area, the last remaining Republican which the Dutch forces have not penetrated.
arca
The review sald Dutch forces regularly having been reizing large amounts of munitions and weapons
Ruvilla from
forces
and cutting down their ability to strike.
Rods Killed
A spokesman said the Com. mission sent to the Dutch A 8,000.word memorandum of the Republic, stating its poji- tion.
It was
written by the Premier Mohamed chatte and other Republican ontfolala who have baen
the datalnest by Dutch.
The Chinese newspaper Ken Po says that the former Repub- Amir Slarifoed-
And several other Com
A communique said, Cghting telican Premier. increasing in the Northern fron-din,, A
fter area of Sumatra about Arie
tulles North of Medan.
Dotel Hoformed Church disejgaoving the Dutch netion.· The metabers agreed with
written by Prent letter Kok, Tonerud Secretary of the Piquel), m which he sold the Dude la arting wil prevent In- danger in from bevorning in second
Tit
Koky W.
of
better was written to . 11, Garam, President
Amortem Counell
Df
Chat de tan Churches, which 18 dbed as an American organ-
isation
15 Septenting
fer fast demonsumations
1,000,000 members.
The Tarten naitunni
Pro-
and over
Counell,
Founded Tast year in Amsterdam, represents putitically
tive clearchis
conserva-
throughout the
workd. Associated Press.
Longest Pier
Being Repaired
4
Manila, February 1. The longest pier in the Far Fast, bully damaged in the war is being reestructud.
Work has started on rebuilding of Manila's Pler 13 as one of the main projects of U. S. army en- gineers in the programme of re- Bobilituling Philippine port and harbour Corites
under
the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1944,
The pier, formerly known as Pier 7,5 1,400 feet long. Before the war I had one long cargo sher. The reconstructed pler will love for separate cargo sheds for greater efficiency, United Press.
LANDING RIGHTS
FOR DUTCH
Enron, February 1. Britain has granted Dutch KLM Airlines landing rights on Mauri- thus Island in the Indian Ocean. The Dutch are not to use the landing feld for planes bearing
nilitary supplies.
recently
inland Pakistan' denied Dutch planes the right to iar in their territories because of the Dutch military, operations -against-the Indonesians-United
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Aussie Coal For Hong Kong
'Brisbane, February 1,
The Cabinet has approv ed applications ter ship..
of
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The Minister for Mines, the Mr. T. A. Foley, sald decision follows the first ra- commendation from the newly 'constituted State Coal Board,
The Nixon Smith Ship-
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Parade Of Chars In London
COURTROOM IN UPROAR DURING LIBEL CASE
Paris, February 1.
Victor Kravchònko rushed angrily across the court-
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room today toward one of his libet suit oppon"My sword shall
ents, but was grabbed by an aide before any blows wore struck.
Kravchenko made an angry dive toward Andre Wurmser, editor of Les Lettres Francaises, when Wurmser insinuated that one of the pro- secution's witnesses worked for the Nazis dur- ing the war.
So
-
The alde caught Kravchenko's by 18 metres, contsining 24. per- coattails and hauled him back. sons. Wurmser
"Some of us leaned against the only Inughed and
wall," he said. "The rest alood waved airily at Kravchenko's
up.
I was there for three months angry shouts,
ant witnessed indescribable hor- The dude art fuckbrown remember a woman whe stationed Repubilenn Guard was forced to stand up in the between Kravchenko and Wurm- Corridor half-naked with her ser, keeping them 10 feet apart, hands tied behind her back. She and called for order in the court screamed Inhumanly."
United room, which was in an uproar,
Press. The witness during the scene was, a refugee Runsino dințineer. Lantion, February 1. 23 munist leaders were killed by
Gabriel Kesilo.
who testifel Republican troops
One hundred London "chars": before the Dutch
about
prison atrocities. moyed Into Republiran (women cleaners), flourishing Kyailo said he was arrestert at The United Nations Commis-territory last December.
maps and duster bags, murched, Kharkov by the Germans during stem for Indonesia reports thint
The newspaper said ite
in-along London streets today in the War and scut 10 Ponne It has no further, haformation on formation is from Soerakarta, in the most touching wage demon- Wurmer implied that the Nazis whether the Netherlands Gov-Central Java. It gives no destration the capital has seen for did not shoot Kystle at Kharkov erament has taken steps to carry tails other than that the. Com~
| because he was working for them. out the Security Council resolu-munisi lenders were killed eight a long time.
That brought They ligged along to the muste
Kravchenko miles East of Soerakarta,
Was In Gool
of three Scottish pipers, and car-bounding to his feet, charging tô- rying posters saying: "Cleanliness ward Wurmser Sharifoeddin was the last of is
Godliness, nat
Women Waving. the Communist leaders to be cleaners are next to starvation.” captured by Republican troops All hail been up at dawn scrub- following the fall of Madioen, hing out Whitehall's Government which the Communists seized | offices before Members of Parlia- Jost
in their pear
unsuccessful ment and civil servants arrived, revolt:
But tired feet and aching backs
Strike In Hospitals
Chinese Warships On Way Home
San Francisco, February 2. with his arms!
Two Chinese warships are to arrive in San Francisco on Prison Horrors
February 5 for a short visit en route to their homeland. They A few minutes later, Kravare the repair ships Tai Ho and chenko did it again. He leap Tal Sang, each manned by ap- ed to his feet and shouting laudly, took several steps to proximately 200 Chinese, om-
cers and enlisted men. He had been lodged In
ward the defence counsel, * did not deter them from gather-
Nordmenn, who war
cross- Jogjakarta poot just before the ing at noon to march two miles Dutch troops moved in.
examining Kys/?o, | from the Thames Embankment to
"Why are you lying?” shouted There has been no offelal word Lincoln's Inn Fields, the centre Kravchenko, "Why are you an strike vote by 34.000 State hos-m the fate of the captured Coin-of 'sellvilies, for able to recognise the truth?"
munists.
Paris, February 1. The staffs of six Paris huspl- tals stopped work today with- out waiting for the results of a
pital employees.
A joint committee of the three main unions involved announced later that the first results of the referendum show that 05 per cent of the employees, including nurses, are in favour of the stop- pinge.
..
The are protesting against what are called "unsatisfactory wage reclassifications and pro- pose to stop work for 48 hours. -Heuter.
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the demonstration, Before Sjalfcocklin was cap- The cleaners who get 1/80, shillings an tured last October by Republi- an hour, want two can forces, the Indonesian news hour. They are insulted that the agency Antara said he had been Government has only offered them killed by his fellow Communists, farthing an hour Increase -Associated Press.
Beuler.
Europe Scourged By TB Epidemic
Belgrade, February 1. Tuberculosis has reached epidomic proportions in Europe with more than 100 dying daily in some countries.
Dr. Paul Andresen, head of adequate housing, food and cloth- the Danish Red Cross antl-T.B.ing have caused the epidemic. section, says figures show that He terms the Yugoslav situation at least 130 persons are dying extremely serious. each day in Poland and more than 100 in Yugoslavia.
children, are being infected daily More than 4,000 persons, mostly
there, 400 of them actually con- Greene, Austria, Germany,tracting the disease, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Italy Dr. Andresen met with Yugoslav also report areas where the in-health officials recently to discuss fection rate has reached epidemic stamping out the epidemic which and proportions,
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Kyalla testifled that Soviet pri- sons are filled with "indescribable horrors for the condemned. Con- tinuing his evidence from yester poses in building Chinese Navy. GGGGGGGG day, Kysilo supported passages in Crews of the two vessels have Kravchenko's boux dealing with:
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