DUTCH SOLDIERS HELD PRISONER

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25308, 7 October 1947, Page 7

DUTCH SOLDIERS HELD PRISONER

INDONESIAN ACTION FORCED LANDING BY U.B. PLANE (Rec. 7 p.m.) BATAVIA, October *. Indonesian soldiers at Pameungpeuk, in West Java, have seized »s prisoners of war three Dutch soldiers who were aboard a United States naval Beechcraft aeroplane which made a forced landing at an airstrip Sa Dutch soldiers. leaiAng behind ahS Captain D. J. MacCullum, the United States Naval Attacne in Batavia, who refused to leave without them Lieutenant-Colonel W. Feallock. ef the United States military mission who, with Captain MacCullum, was investigating the cease fire, told the United States Consul-General in Batavia (Mr Walter Foote) that th* Dutch soldiers had been detained on the orders of the Republican air commodore at Jogjakarta. Mr Foote broadcast a message from Batavia to the Indonesian President !H r ’ ? r the p l ,m « Minister (Mr Sjarifuddin). appealing to them to order the release of the Dutch solfliers, two of whom were attached to the United States military mission as aides and guides to assist them in investigating the cease fire for the report to the Security Council. The third Dutch soldier was given a lift from Taskimalaja to Batavia, from where he was to fly home on conwAMionata leave to Holland, where hig parents are reported to be dying. The Pameungpeuk airstrip is l>o miles inside the territory which the Dutch claim ag Dutch-occupied.