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HATTA ORDERS ARREST OF "TURK" WESTERLING

on for

Manhunt

leader

of the 'Heavenly Host'

+

Jakarta, January 24.

Indonesian police were enlisted under the now Fodorol Army today in a great manhunt for the outlawed Dutch captain whose forces mode a hit and run raid on the big West Java city of Bandaong on Monday. The Premier, Dr. Mohamed Hafta, told reporters that orders have gone out to arrest the Dutch rebel leader, R. P. P. ("Turk") Westerling, aged 30, whose raiders seized key points in Bandoeng early on Mon- About 600 men are day, but later withdrew after bloody fighting. said to have taken part in the raid Neutral military sources in Bandoong estimate that the outlaws killed 360

Indonesian soldiers and civilians before they vanished into the hills.

The

Fid

Gaves inní

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Dr. Batth safe. "we du nol tom of the Southern part ut

Nother ds know where Westeriing is, buil Bandoeng. the commander of shelf act acendingly, the puper we certianly will try to miest the Durh Trones in West Javu but. He is more than a rebel contacted the foul Irader of

Westerling's He is an enemy "

forces

former trispector of the Hunnen golier the Vice Premier of West Jaya and the Chart of Staff of the Tre

dotasandi division who Widem Staff Bradquinters of the Dutch commander.

nyu,

Less than Iwo werka Westerling was reputed to have visited Jakarta. but the ite The Uralert States of Indonesia hesitated to arrest him. D. Hatta then said that if Westerling fab Inwed out his promaines trouble, he wondd be nabbed

Inter muitiary

A

to fart

chiest Ardened the Badong raid on a "matiny" of native soldiers.

in the hitch Army

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Motor sed mautry

The result

of This

meeting

Was that Westerling's forcen evacuated The Bouthern part of Bandoeng at 5 pm after which re occupied by Indone. Blon froopa and the situation then returned fo normal, the communiquc added

(

tommands of the

and ntr- Il-

Th

domestni Army poured Into Ban-

during tonlay without option t

Koostavadoorplans

1/4

Jenn Hours after Westerling's whn hal desarp feel the preylear "Army of the Heavenly Host

turk sathdrawe

'T

Netel within 24 hors by Tartonesians, "Houvenly Hasts Patch, and Indonesian

git carried on atrasals, won stening wheller Westerling's pri vale army, bebeved to be in the armantnijas North West of fun. doeng would retur to the wt. Tak

Dutch troops entering the city ram duly reefed the forty-loads

Laurenc

visifth cements with gobied houts of "Merdeka"

fiberty J

2 they drove by

Charges are unfounded

ely all the Dutch boops

niphat ter Jens Wererling's foresta bust reporter og to the com Airless

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The Dutch Chart of General Stat Sestradas onderent. These deger ters

wlated and disputed sree transprotest to Jakarta truly ar- ace mier protes Live

The communique sand,

Revolt condemned

Het Vrae Volk

the dulch list newspaper in the Hague, totay condemned Caplains Wealer. tevi as "The artion of

2011 Responsible andyourture a - bucle reserves the strongest dis

The Dutch Area Commander | approval of the Pholch people",

in West Java, General Englos, said today that the Dutch in Bandoeng had taken control of The city after the rebels' with- drawal to protect themselves and the European community.

"Anything might have }hla [a - pened it we had not been there",

General Engles said that Wes- terling's

}

The Comunities paper

Wester Wambelt" claimed that ting was mling on the orders, if the Dutch Secret Service.

probably explicites

did not att The Balfe tremIJE him, but allowed him to occupe

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why

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Ven a sud The N Mute Department is Ex Er attan k effe nads Word on by Regentli

thank

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ere greally l turbing. That dank- helarve Dat The Gave sent at the

news Re- Jabla

lunesab o ne yet berm sang comely challenges. CREATISE

and Reuter

British telegrams sold to French

Berne, January 24,

commander had agreed A 60-year-old senior officia¡ of the Swiss Post Office

to withdraw to avait chaos.

Referring to the Indonesian Defence Ministry'e allcgation,

container in a communique issuedi todny, the attempts to return to normal conditions

in West Jaen were being made dimeult by Dutch, some

the

neutral mill. suid tary observers

the allo- that gations were unfounded.

The

admitted here today that for 19 years he had been selling to the French, copies of telegrams sent by the British Legation here to the Foreign Office in London.

The offel, by the mean of Stemmer, trial by a POELL martial, said that he first began. were mill-sending telegrams to the French rily defeated by Westerling who Secret Service because his wif withdrew in good order at the kept hitn short of Jork1 advice of the Dutch Command

Indonesians

mediating as requested by the Indonesian Government.

Hague denial

MONEY.

Bleiner was charged with bay- ing made ruples of

important milltary and political telegrams to and from Swiss Legallons abroad and having sent them to Official quarters at The Hague | the French for the past 20 years, declared today that there was no Although a civilian offelal of question of the Dutch Army au- the Ministry of Posts and Tele-

or

even of

graphs, he is being tried by a their court martial of seven officers at the orders of the Swiss Federal Council (Cabinet),

thorities being in lengue with Westerling having "permitted him to take Bandoeng yesterday.

These quarters would make no definite statement, claiming that

detailed in

hey had as yet no formation.

the local

They suggested that Indonesian authorities had asked

in

the Dutch forces to prevent loot-

BER ing and protect lives and properly Bandoeng after Westerling's attack, and this the Dutch Com- mander

ader had apparently agreed to de, temp

e, temporarily.

The withdrawal of the rebel forces was due entirely to the personal Intervention of the Dutch Commandant, a communi- que issued tonight by the Nether- lands Ministry of Union and Realm Allaira at tha Hague

olated,

The communique added That -troops of the APRA (Westerling & forter) entered the outskirts of Bandoeng early yesterday. No fighting of

significance occurred but the forces continued their advance towards Bandang.

News was later

received,

taued

any

the communique,

these forces had

con-

that

ecupled the

...Southern part of Bandoeng, tho headquarters of the Indonesian divlalon, there,.and the Telephone, Exchange.

Desertors return

#{The`APRA's action was direct- Cod exclusively‘against the Inijoné-i stan troops, whereby the after- Ledýan estimated 10s of:30;1

Troops under Dutch comm who, in accordance With ̈ round-table conference agree ments not intervene, conse

ily suffered no losses but there were some victims among the civilian

Jan population, the com munique sald

did

Meanwhile, Indonesian troops

alood their ground in the part of the town lying North of the railway, which Westerling's troops didənot cross. After the occupa="

today

He admitted in court that from about 1930 until he was arrested last year he had been sending to the French Secret Ser- vice copies of British telegrams to London.

He saul that before the war | he had also sold coples of tele. grana from the Italian, German their and Balkan Legations to enpitals.

Steiner sald that when Soviet Russta opened a Legationi In Berne 11047, French

agents asked him for copies of the Rus glan telegrams but after supply. ing two or three he was asked to cease ropylug the Russian cables. He did not know why,

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1950.

Stratemeyer's visit to Australia

Bydney, January 24. Doorboy was maintained to. day over the six-day visit to Australia of Lieutenant-Gen- eral D. E. Stratameyer, Chief 01 the United States Air Force in the Far East, and several members of staff.

General Stratamayer la dus to leave for Tokyo tomorrow night. He has refused to dis- curs the purpose of his visit, According to the military correspondent of the "Sydney

Mr.

Morning Herald." General Stratemeyer has had several talks with Australian Bervice chlofs, the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies,

and Federal Ministers

The correspondent said it la understood that General Stratemeyer outlined revised United States air strategy in relation to a possible bestilo Communist China-Reuter.

ITALIAN CABINET CRISIS

Rome, January 24. The need for speedy Parlin- mentary action on Italy's United Nations mandate over Somaliland today complicat- ed the nation's Cabinet crisis. Premie Aleide de Gasperi, striving to Torm his sixth Govern- ment. conferred at length this with Parlamentary kewers of his majute Christian Dent Party

Atten the meetings he told re- jon teks, "The situation is extreibe– us gent and I am canvassing all possibile solutions.

Paadament must arl

the despatch of Bulanna inops to the Aftlean colony to take over from Bratista authorities maintaining weder The approach of monsoon weather makes it mandatory that the forers be on their way in- mediately

The Penner has been trying to form a new coalition including the Istuall parties he had in his pre-

vious Goveynment.

However, he must form a new Government Before Par Dament can be convened to act in the zulony question

1 bin stumbling block. -op- position to his proposed pro- Krannie by two of the minor par- いや He may now decide to form

a one-party Government with his Christian Demernt Party.

The decision, veteran political abeervers way, hinges an the anti-Communist Labour

cialiste (PBLI). The PSLI NA- tional Council meeta in Rome today to decide whether to side with Bignor de Gasperi об remain out of the Government, A Foreign Ministry spokesman said de Gasperi will probably in- clude the Somaliland question In his new Government's programme to speed up Parliamentary action. Under Italian procedure when the new Government formed, the Cabinet and its programme must obtain immediate approval of both Houses of Parliament,

By Including Somaliland in his

Grim conditions in North China

(By Wayno Richardson)

Aboard Flying Arrow, January 24, Communist North China' appears to be facing tho blackest economic picturo in the history of China.

A black picture of chaos and famine in that vast re- gion was given to me during the four days 1 spent ashore on Shantung Peninsula while the Flying Arrow unloaded cargo at Tsingtao, once the base of the American Asiatic Fleet.

My Informant was a well-in- formed source, His name cannot be used. He sold:

"Poor crops in Shantung (one of China's richest agricultural areas) would make Impossible

surplus for export.

any

гов

Consequently many millions people will starve before next year's harvest, despite any- thing the Communlit Government could do even if it was willing.

"Even

now in various arcus people

are enting herbs and

leaves.

"The administrative picture is

rather cach guild is assessed so much to be pro-rated uniong members,” he said.

"Many firma, foreign and Chi- nese, have alrendy closed or op- lied for permission to close."

This man said that since last year's withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Tsingtao the people would welcome back the Japanese to re-establish law and order and reasonable taxation.

"Despite the publicly given in the Communist-controlled Press

absolutely a meas, because of inck concerning friendship with Bus- of trained personnel and Com-stu and the formation in Teing- munist reluctance to uillise avail- | tao of a branch of the Sino- able axperienced professional Soviet Friendship Society, the

men.

"The average Shantungcar

thinks even less of the Reds than he did of the Kuomintang but will remain apathetic.

"Consequently, by resorting to Gestapo methods, there appears.

no reason to believe that The armed Communists cannot mouin- tain effective control."

My informant said there is no mbre behind the Comununist

than there was behind Kuomintang currency.

average Soviet citizen is necord- ed no better treatment than any ather foreigner," he said.

All U.S. Government property in Tsingtao has been taken over by the Reda,

One old-time resident of Taing- Lan, who also desires anonymity, commented: "The rich are get- Link

still poor, and

the poor poorer." Associated Press.

HEADMISTRESS ACCUSED

My informant said that th" Kuomintang, through sheer cor- ruption and robbery of the peo- ple by their inanetal rasures, 1st any remaining prestige they

Stockholm, January 24. might have had In Shantung.

A 59-year-old boarding school "Having lest the Reds poli- headmistress was accused In the Henlly, The (the Kuomintang) Swedish Press Today of having military defeat

foregone logged crippled children WILD

until conclusion Such Amertean mili- splinters of birch were embed

ded in their flesh

In arcounts based on interviews with former pupils, Miss Emile Becher was alleged to have re- moved the braces from the leg

tary old, which was considerable. as was rendered the Nationalisi military authorities in Shantung directly or indirectly might just as well have been given the Res directly."

Private trode on way out

Hold the Communists' pre. cent pailty of taxation indicates they intend to drive out

of a child suffering from Infun- tile paralysis, forcing him to erow in his nightshirt Into the ron of an assistant inistress for

birching.

Ofelais of the Swedish My Heal Association said thui they investigating. Thir

private trade. "The volume of business is not ! Haelsingborg, South usert a banla Tur taxation but

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ensure Immediate action on the question. Associated Press.

TRIUMPH that for his 25

He declared years' work for the French Secret Service he had earned about 15,000 Swiss francs. It was also stated that be had sold copies of telegrama from landing Swiss banks and Industrial 'Brins to their customers und representatives

abroad

The trial is expected to end on Thursday. Reuter,

KILLED

PILOT

Singapore, January 24,

A British Naval pilot was kill- cd when his fighter plane crashed today at Changi airfield,

The plane was from the aircraft carries Triumph, bared on Singn- pore. Associated Press.

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