EAST JAVA AMBUSH
Ex-Minister Shot
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DJAKARTA, July 24. A pro-Communist Cabinet minister under the deposed President, Dr Sukarno, had been shot dead by the Indonesian Army in an ambush in South Blitar, the key trouble spot in restive East java province, the Army announced today. The Army Information Service said Surachman, former Irrigation Minister and leader of a pro-Communist faction in the big Indonesian Nationalist Party, was killed while trying to break out of a troop encirclement on July 18.
He is the third top Communist supporter killed or captured recently in the Blitar region, where the Army says the banned Communist Party is trying to set up a guerrilla base. A wave of violence, which has taken about 100 lives in the province over the last six months, has been officially ascribed to Communist underground activity.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31740, 25 July 1968, Page 11
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