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Amsterdam, Dec. 28.
The Royal Dutch Steampacket Company (KPM) was today fined 250,000 guilders for tak- ing Indonesian troops to Amboin Island last month while Indonesian and South Moluccan troops were still fighting.
Amboin Island, now occupied by Indonesian troops, was the last stronghold of the self- proclaimed Republic of the South Moluccas.
The Government would
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The Court ruled last week The Court found today that "fighting between Indonesian that the Dutch could not send and South Moluccan troops was the Amboinese anywhere in still going on" at the time. Indonesia occupied by In- Counsel for the K.P.M. asserted donesian troops without their last week that the fighting was own consent, ended, and that the ship's passengers were "occupation fined one million guilders forces" to relieve troops that
(£100,000) for any violation. About 4,000 former Amboinese troops and 9,000 relatives now in Dutch camps in Java were to have been returned to Amboin Island this month,-
had been in action,
An Amsterdam District Court ruled on November 2 that every ship of the company that con- tinued to carry troops for the Indonesian, Republic to the South Moluccas would be fined Reuter.› 250,000 guilders,
KPM's appeal against the order of November 2 is still to be heard.
The Court ruled today that the fine be deposited with a Dutch bank, where it would be held for payment to the party which finally wins the legal battle on the transport of the troops.
A BLUNT
WARNING
BY TITO
Belgrade, Dec. 28.
It was learned in The Hague that the Dutch Government had also appealed against a Hague Marshal Tito warned to- Court verdict on the repatria-night that Yugoslavia was tion of former Amboinese directly threatened with members of the Dutch Army in aggression by at least 660,- Indonésia.
000 Soviet troops in Bul- garia, Croatia and Hungary. Marshal Tito gave his warn- ing in an appeal for approval of the record-breaking budget. He said bluntly that only a fool would feel safe from Russia and its Eastern Euro- 'pean satellites who, he de- clared, had gone far beyond the
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peace treaty limits in their Speaking in his role as aa- tional leader, and almost with
war preparations.
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A SUNNY SIGHT-Starlet Jean Ruth relaxes in Holly. wood as she basks in warm sunshine that is making it. self conspicuous by its absence in the eastern part of the United States these days. The sight of anyone as lovely as Jean should warm any cold heart.
Soviet Protests
Against Japanese Civil Jurisdiction
Washington, Dec. 28.
The Soviet Union on Thursday protested against the recent Far Eastern Commission deci- sion giving Japanese courts criminal and civil jurisdiction over United Nations nationals in that
out reference to the Communist Party which he heads, Marshal | country. Tito said that, as a result of new call-ups in the past year in the satellite countries, Bulgaria had drei Panyushkin told an army of 195,000 men, Hun-Eastern Commission meeting the
F.E.C. members said they gary 165,000, Rumania 100,000, decision was "illegal" because it
assumed Russia would have He read the specific limits of was adopted during the absence vetoed the action if Mr Panyush- the peace treaty, calling for a of the Russian representative kin had been at the meet- Bulgarian army of 67,500, on the Commission.
a
ing, since the Soviet Union Hungarian force of 70,000. He
previously indicated it resents The decision was adopted outlined how the satellites had
Japanese judges exercising. on September 22 at the time jurisdiction over United Nations. gone beyond these ceilings,
when the Soviet Union was nationals in Japan. United Marshal Tito warned the world at large not to fall into boycotting the Commission in Press.
continued the, mistake of peace.
protest against the cost.
presence on that body of the Chinese Nationalist represen- "We are opposed to any sort tative.
aggression, whether
Soviet Ambassador Alexan-ernment must work pending a
a Far peace treaty.
at any
of
it is being carried out by capitalist
or socialist countries. Reliance
on
The American representative OUTPUT OF
replied: "The willful COTTON UP
IN HOPEI
the F.E.C., Mr Maxwell upon their armed forces became Hamilton who is also its chair- clear in connection with the
man, attitude of the Soviet Union,
absence of any member of the which is the most armed power Commission does not invalidate in the world today and taking
any decisions taken." fact, most advantage of that especially in regard to small Prior to the September 22 nations like ours.
courts had decision, Japanese He spoke also against the only limited civil jurisdiction "strange peace progaganda cam-over Allied nationals in Japan. paign led by the Soviet Union". The United States sponsored the authorities on the Chinese "By peace they mean, Stop, the move to give them com- mainland show, that both grain do not move. Wait until you plete jurisdiction in an effort and cotton output has gone up may be allowed by us. If you to reduce the restrictions un- in Hopei Province, Peking Radio do not agree to that and offer der which the Japanese Gov-reported tonight.. resistance, then you are an ag- gressor, you are a great danger to the Soviet Union."
Burmese Clash
Throughout his speech, Mar- shal Tito stressed that peace at any price would be a catas
Rangoon, Dec. 28. trophe for the world' and he
The Rangoon newspaper, The appealed indirectly to the big Nation said today that Burmese powers to settle their differences troops had clashed with a band and make a just and lasting peace.-United Press.
Dog As Payment
Edmonton, Alberta, Dec. 28. C.B. Freeland's prize labrador dog ate so much that Mr Freeland could not pay his food bill. When General Foods, Ltd., of Toronto, pressed him for pay- ment, he sent them the dog-- United Press.
of Kuomintang (Chinese Na- tionalist) deserters who have been in hiding in Burma,
San Francisco, Dec. 28. Statistics made. available by
The production of grain in the Province exceeded the prewar level by two percent; cotton output was 81 percent higher than the annual average figure of the last seven prewar years, the Radio ported.
It added, "This is a tremen- dous achievement in view of the fact that in Hopel. Province | agricultural production had
dropped by a quarter during the.... war years.".
The newspaper said that the deserters broke out of their
One factor: contributing to internment camp
were the recorded rise was that 20,- heading towards the War States 000,000 peasants in the Province in South-western Burma when now owned their own Burmese, troops marched to "never so well tilled meet them and fighting follow now? the broadcast ed-Reuter.-
Reuter.