NO COMMENT ON BOMBING POLICY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 1

NO COMMENT ON BOMBING POLICY

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, October 1. The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) today declined to comment when he was asked if New Zealand would support any British plan to strike at Indonesian bases if Indonesia landed more guerrillas in Malaysia,

“It is a much too complicated issue for me to make a categorical statement,” he said. “It would be quite unhelpful for me to speculate or set the matter out in detail.” Mr Holyoake reiterated that the Governments of New Zealand, Australia, Britain and Malaysia were in daily contact on the situation. “We have been working in concert and will continue to work in concert,” he said. TROOPS OUT AGAIN Less than 40 hours after soldiers of the Ist Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, returned to their

• base at Terendak camp, near Malacca, they were called out again for further security operations in Johore state, ■ says Army Headquarters. A Malaysian Ministry of Defence spokesman said the ; New Zealand battalion had • been redeployed acting upon I new information. The New Zealanders had been on short notice since i they returned to Terendak i Camp late on Sunday after having been on operations since September 5 against Indonesian infiltrators. The battalion left camp on , Tuesday and spent yesterday ' being deployed ready to be- ■ gin searching this morning.