INDONESIANS KIDNAPPED
WILLING TO SIGN ON DUTCH SHIP SYDNEY, December 20.
Two Indonesian seamen who had expressed their willingness to sign on the Dutch hospital ship Tasman were whisked mysteriously from their beds in a lodging house in a Sydney suburb at 2 a.m.' to-day by a gang of about 200 Indonesians and lascars. The police and the Dutch Royal Packet Navigation Company, which owns the Tasman, have received only brief news of the happening. It is reported that lascars and Indonesians entered the lodging house and lifted the two men forcibly from their beds and disappeared with them. No hint lias been received concerning where the men were taken.
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Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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110INDONESIANS KIDNAPPED Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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