GERMANS INTERNED
WAR PROCLAMATION
SEIZURE OF 19 SHIPS
(Received May 11, 8.40 a.m.)
SINGAPORE, May 10,
The Governor of the Dutch East Indies, in a broadcast, declared that a state of war existed and that all Germans above the age of 16 years would be interned. The majority of the Germans who were taken from their offices were unaware that a state of war
existed,
Nineteen German cargo vessels Avhich have been harbouring in the Dutch Indies and which were recently supposed to be preparing to make a dash for Vladivostok have all been seized and their crews interned. The crews of three German ships unsuccessfully attempted to scuttle their vessels. A German sailor who resisted arrest was killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 10
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119GERMANS INTERNED Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 10
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