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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 5

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DUTCH JN INDIES REPUBLICANS’ H.Q. SHELLED BY BRITISH LONDON, March 21. The Hilversum radio says 2000 more Dutch soldiers have landed in Java and the first contingent of British troops have left. The withdrawal of the British and Indian troops will extend over six months. The British and Indian forces shelled the Republican Army’s headquarters in retaliation for an attack on the RAPWI camp at Bandoeng and aircraft strafed Indonesian vehicles leaving the area, says the Batavia correspondent of the Associated Press. The Republican headquarters was asked by telephone for the firing to cease. Reuter’s correspondent in Batavia says the Indonesian Republican leaders at Medan Sumatra, sent an ultimatum to the British demanding the immediate ending of British military activities and the release of all prisoners; otherwise all British installations would he destroyed and all the Dutch would be arrested, says the Netherlands News Agency. The ultimattum expired on the night of March 19, but, except for intermittent firing last night, nothing has happened. The Soviet-trained Communist leader, Tan Malacca, organiser of the People’s Front Party, is reported to have been arrested by the Indonesian Nationalist Army.