DUTCH TROOPS FOR EAST
VESSEL HELD UP. AT SYDNEY
WATERSIBERS WON'T HANDLE STORES
(Rec. 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 6. Tlie waterside workers have refused to handle stores on the Stirling Castle, lying at a Sydney wharf with 1,600 Dutch troops. The president of the Sydney Waterside Workers’ Union said a cable had been sent to Mr Attlee protesting against the use of a British ship to ’ transport Dutch troops to the East Indies, particularly when Australian soldiers still in- the Islands were unable to obtain transport. In Canberra, the Minister of the Navy, Mr N. J. Makin, said the naval authorities in Sydney were watching the position of Netherlands personnel in the Stirling Castle. The Government was anxious that the troops should be sent north as soon as possible, and was doing everything to expedite this.
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Evening Star, Issue 25633, 6 November 1945, Page 5
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