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notr.ceda II,

The Hague, October 18. Sultan Hamid, President of West Borneo, said Indonesian here today that the Dutch and delegations are "practically certain to reach an overall agreement" by the end of October at their round-table conference on the future status of Indonesia.

Giving his personal views, the Sultan-stated at a press conference that there is "no, deadlock".

in the discussions.

The Dutch Prime Minister, M.)seem to be no gearer a solution Willem Drees, who is also the on the debts problem 213-News, Fender Report and chairman of the round-table con- ference on Indonesia, today dis- Assed, the, wilitare situation with 1.26~~"Orchats of the Week"-Rayal the Indonesian Republican Prime

conducted Minister, Dr. Mohammed Hatta.

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The Steering Committee of the conference is meeting today to

10 decide on the pomers t to the mixed; “mediating. sub- committee" on debts. This sub- committee was formed on a pro- posal of the Dutch and was ac

only reluctantly by the

Republican Toconesian delegations.

The

Indonesian President, Dr. L. R. Soerkarno, has informed the Republican de- legation here that he will do all he can to solve the military dif Aculties in East Java-the main

10-Of The Record Preated by trouble spot.

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insisted that "this sub-committee shall have only advisory powers and not decisive unes as favour-

Republican sources here saided by the Dutch today that they were less per simistic about the military situa tion than their Minister of De

There has

pared to assume

Indonesians Accused By Chinese

Batavia, October 18. Indonesian Republican troops. have been accused ́or extorting protection" "money from Chinese communities In ́towns . within areas largely controlled by Republican forces. The

accusation was made by.. the Co-ordinating. Off

Office of the All-Indonesia Federa tion of Chinese Associations. which has sent protests to the Dutch Crown Commis: sioner, the Republican Minis- ter of Defence, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, and "the Chinese representatives at The Hague conference.

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A prominent Chinese bus. ness man operating a food transport service from Ban- doeng told Reuter that he pale $5,000-wide mental to various Republican junior commanders 23

"Insurance" against looting of his lorries. In one case, he said, the "premium" demanded Was 20,000 cigarettes--Reuter.

MOTHER TO HANG

London, October 18, Debt Problem

Mrs. Norah Patricia Tierney, fence, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, reaction to the last

·been Do Dutch 29-year-old mother of two child- Indonesian ren, was sentenced to death in 8.30m Take It From Fine-with or who declared over the week-end proposal that they would be pre- the Central Criminal Court to-

that there was a danger of in armed

3.4 milliard day for the murder of a neigh- conflict

daughter three-year-old throughout Java and Sumatra" guilders of debt to Holland. The bour's

Dutch view is understood to be after she had testified to seeing The Republicans here thought that the parties should arrive at her husband commit it that these remarks

were "too

final total on the basis of the) gloomy in view

of the present detaled. fgures supplied, to the relationships at the conference.

mediating sub-committee. They said that there was insuffi cient understanding in Indonesia of the conciliatery spirit here owing to the difficulty of diffus- ing news to some parts of the archipelago.

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When the trial opened sester- day the husband, James Tierney, testified that his wife had told Despite the differences of him: "It was I who have done it" view, the parties are working after the child had been found hard to clear up the problem. battered to death last August in Meetings are being held a derelict house in North-West throughout the day and some- London. times late into the night

Today Mrs. Tierney told the It was announced later that the Court that she had seen her hus- Steering Committee had taken no band striking the child with a decisions today. But Sultan Ha-hammer in the house where she mid told a press conference that bad gone to look for him. the Committee

had "discussed the situation in East Java in 2 very pleasant atmosphere."

Sultan Harid, who is chairman of the Indonesian Federalist de that "thelewation said that the Indonesians

"The

prosecution alleged that there was no evidence to connect Mr. Tierney with the crime but "ample evidence" 2gainst Mrs. Tierney. The police said that her right shoe fitted the prints

wanted sovereignty to be trans- found in the house and coloured! ferred to them by about the mid-fibres found under her nails cor- dle of December.

responded, to those of the mur dered child's cardigan-Reuter.

He said that informal talks on Great conference, activity is the actual transfer date had now going on in the financial and begun, but no decisions had been economic field, where the parties made.-Reuter.

British General Denies Charges

London, October 18. - Major-General Sir Edward Spears, British Minister to Syria and the Lebanon during the later war years, today hotly denied that he had carried out any hidden policy of the British Government to throw the French out of the Levant.

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Unregistered correspondence only for General Spears told a news con- In reply to General Catroux's hea Tentain and North China ference here that "gross libels" (charges that "he bad poisoned can be accepted at senders risk, and will 1.5.- Grehestra of the Week-Relay),

against himself, and "extremely the Arabs against the French for be forwarded as opportunity offers serious misstatements" concerning British interests

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had been made by General

said that Britain had "failed to nose before 10 L-Vocally Your-Song Stylings Georges Catroux in a book of

Parpel Posts close # Margaret Whitins. Frank Saates memoirs reproduced in the French establish the Free French

daily newspaper “Le Figaro." Syria because a least 1,000 off previous day.

the Vichy Matie, are closed at Eermoon Central | He said that he had called a

cial functionaries of Administration remained, and Post Ofte kalf on boste verlier than the meeting of the Press as the only

GPO clodne kaden way of defending himself, after Catroux refused a purge."

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sitated British intervention,"

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General Spears said that in General Spears added. 1946, as soon as the Syrians and Middle East came from a change "The French breakdown in the: Story of Kodern Song Writers), the Lebanese had the chance, 320— Light Orchestra-4 (Relax) 2.06-Listen in Leibert Gilmanjen From they demanded the withdrawal policy. The Free. French came in with a definite promise to have been effected by one man, dence. As they were only a party Syria and Lebanon of indepen- (Dance | how AV DE designing, had the

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had

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General Spears said.

"Later the French wanted to make that

de. independence pendent on the terms of a treaty, he added. "Catroux and de Gaulle

attempted to appoint a government and . #2: a treaty with it, but the British

‚ insisted' on electong...

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powers."

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King"),

charges that he had taken ad- vantage of the momentary weak- nesses of France to rouse the Syrians and Lebanese to take up arms-against her," General Speart said that the final over- throw of France in the Levant had come in 1945, after he had

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The French sent black troops to Intimidate the Syrian and Lebanese Governments, and when these refused to negotiate under duress, the French opened fire on Damascus, causing 1,000, casualties," he said.

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