DUTCH TROOPS ENGAGED
BATAVIA, December 20. A 60-ton wooden motor ship displaying the Red Cross insignia fired on a Dutch party landing from a destroyer off Billiton Island last Friday, reports a Netherlands Navy communique. One Dutch signalman was killed. Dutch troops were mentioned, in an operational role for the first time in to-day’s Allied headquarters communique. They occupied the Passarminggoe area near Batavia, capturing arms, ammunition and vehicles. The situation at Semarang is still uneasy, with Indonesian concentrations in the eastward. Forces cleared the troublesome northern sector of Bandoeng and found many weapons, including blunderbusses, in an hotel which was strongly defended. The total British and Indian .casualties in the Netherlands Indies fighting to December 14 is now. 178 killed, 742 wounded, and 175 missing.
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Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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