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London, Nov. 13.

A big advance on any of the earlier negotiations between Holland and Indonesia is considered by London observers to have been achieved by the draft agreement reached in Batavia last Friday, whose terms were published today. This is the first time since negotiations between the two parties started early this year that it

CASUALTIES

Londen, Nov. 15. The Prims Minister, Mr.

Cr E-Allike, rriorted in the, Commons yesterday -Shot 3,940 persons had sten killud and 14,550 ces in

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The new agreement cuts down the transition period in which Indonésia's new status would become effective to some two years as compared with ten to twenty years envisaged in the Dutch proposals of last spring It has also evolved the most promising formula yet devised to meet the hitherto insoluble problem of relationship betwee the Dutch Crown and the Re- public of Indonesia.

Well-informed observers in London are, however, still-cau1 tous about forecasting ultimate success of the agreement which now has to be referred back to The Hague. The proposals work ed out in Batavia by the Dutch Commission-General, led by for

mer Socialist Premier Professor Willem Schermerhorn, have to he endorsed by the Dutch Gov

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The British Government has self would have liked most. tions that "a certain amount of presented a second note to the Grosvenor Square, which has opposition will come from the Rumanian Government concero- been selected for the site, was Catholic Peoples Party. Until ing the conduct of the the centre of the most important the reaction of the Dutch Gov Rumanian elections and in re- American activities during the ernment and Parliament has beply to the Rumanian Govern war. came clear, it is too early to as- sume that the Indonesian ques-ment's note of November 7.

The role, which was present tion is definitely settled.

ed to the Rumanian Government on November 16 by the British Even if the draft agreement Political Adviser in Bucharest, is approved in its present form, said the British Government there are two further critical regarded an irrelevant and stages before the prospective baselesa" the argument advan Dutch-Indonesian Union be-ced by the Rumanian Govern-need and a friend indeed to our

Critical Issue

comes a going concern,

"In the great Republic across the Atlantic, the head of State is also the head of the party engaged in all controversies of party politics, but over here in Great Britain we only knew President Roosevelt as a world statesman who was a friend in country and to the cause of SS. freedom and civilisation.

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