PORT SAID CROWDS DEMONSTRATE: ANTI-DUTCH FEELING
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 10.
When the steamship Volendam arrived at Port Said yesterday with 3000 troops bound, it was said, for the Far East, hundreds of demonstrators, waving Egyptian and Indonesian flags, locked up water and oil supplies, reports the Associated Press Port Said correspondent. The workers awaiting the ship’s arrival ashore then put out- in launches and-other small craft, shouting slogans, and surrounded the Volendam where she lay at anchor outside the harbour. When an attempt was made to take out supplies to the ship, the demonstrators’ craft battled with the 15 police boats escorting the supply boats. The police arrested 20 and brought them into Port Said, where their arrival touched off further demonstrations in which crowds paraded the streets shouting, “Down with Dutch imperialism—long live free Indonesia,” until the police dispel sed them with clubs. Reliable sources told the correspondent that the ship had taken on major supplies at Haifa, as trouble was predicted at Port Said.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1947, Page 5
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