DUTCH TROOPS ROUT REPUBLICANS IN CENTRAL JAVA
(Rec. 2 p.m.) BATAVIA, August 31. Intensive Dutch patrolling against the undiminished Republican pressure on the Indonesian population in the boundary areas of Java and Sumatra is reported in today’s Dutch army communique. It said the population was being continuously terrorised. In West Java eight clashes with Republicans were reported. In Central Java, east of Gombong, a border town about 100 miles west of Jogjakarta, Dutch troops encountered a Republican formation of about 200 men offering heavy resistance. The communique said the Republicans suffered serious losses and fled, leaving behind a two-inch field-gun. Another seven clashes in the area south of Samarang, one clash on Madura Island, and several in northwest. Sumatra were also reported.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1947, Page 5
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