DUTCH SHIP AT SYDNEY
CARGO LOADED BY SOLDIERS (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY, January 23. The largest Dutch freighter afloat, the Tjibesar, of 11,000 tons, which has been laid up in Sydney harbour since November by .the union ban, is being loaded to-day with Dutch Army equipment by Dutch soldiers in cooperation with the Australian Army and Navy. The cargo is being freighted by tank-landing ship and loaded by the Tjibesar’s own winches. The owners admitted that the ship had been transferred to the control of the Dutch Navy. When the vessel arrived in Melbourne on November 5 from the Netherlands East Indies carrying 200 Malayan and Javanese labourers to load Dutch equipment, the watersiders threatened to tie up all the ships in port if foreign labour was used. The Tjibesar arrived in Sydney on November 24 to load landing barges and surf boats for Indonesia and has been held here since. .
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 3
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