DUTCH REPORTS OF FIGHTING
WEST JAVA DISTRICT
rfeec. 9.80) BATAVIA, March 18. Serious fighting is going on between Indonesian Republican irregulars and Dutch troops in the rugged Madjalengka district, 25 miles south of Cheribon, in West Java, .according to reliable Dutch sources. It is stated that the Dutch Army is taking action to round up the irregulars,. avlio are believed to belong to a Moslem youth unit called “Hisbulla.” Madjalengka is well within Dutchoccupied West Java, and is separated from the Republic by a demilitarised zone. According to the Dutch, the district has been a centre of Republican resistance ever since the Dutch “police action” ended on August 4. 1947.
No official information has been given about the fighting by the Security Council Cood Offices Committee, which, according to the agree*, ment signed aboard the U.S.S. Renville, must obtain the concurrence, of the disputing parties before issuing militarv information.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 135, 19 March 1948, Page 3
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