ATTACK REPULSED
RAPWI SUPPLY CAMP
POSITION MAINLY QUIET
(11 a.m.) BATAVIA. Dec. 17
Three hundred Indonesians armed with knives and shouting: “Moslem brothers from India —join us or die!” attacked a RAPWI. camp near Buitenzorg. The Indian troops opened fire arid broke up the attack. The situation in Batavia and Bandoeng is quiet but it is announced that all forces and RAPWI supplies in the future will be moved to Enndoeng by air.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 3
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73ATTACK REPULSED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 3
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