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INDONESIAN TRAINEES SUMATRAN HIGHLANDS (11 a.m.) BATAVIA, March 5. The Dutch News Agency says Japanese instructors are training Indonesian extremists in the highlands of Sumatra and providing them with weapons. A group of Indonesians killed four Ambonese sentries at the R.A.P.W.I. camp near Batavia last night. British and Indian troops routed the attackers. Twelve Indonesians carrying British arms and ammunition were captured at Buitenzorg. The Indonesians are using women to entice Indian troops into Indonesiancontrolled southern Bandoeng and are then refusing them permission to return to the British area, says the Batavia correspondent of ihe Associated Press.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 5
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