OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
DUTCH OFFICIALS REMAINING Batavia, Feb. 2. The Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies to-day indicated that the Dutch officials in the enemyoccupied areas had not deserted their posts, and that the Government expected them to stay with their native charges. He emphasised that the Government was conscious of the exceptionally hard task which was demanded of these servants in the occupied and threatened territory, but it knew that there was a bond of helpfulness and trust which would not be broken. A message from Batavia says that the Government removed a certain number of Dutch National Socialists interned at Ngawi. in Java, to a place somewhere outside the Netherlands East Indies.
INCREASED DANGER The Governor-Genera! of the Netherlands East Indies in a
e ’( broadcast revealed that all communication with Ambon (or Ams bonia, the Dutch island naval base) ~ has been broken off. He added, “The danger in our territorial waters has increased. The Japanese are aiming at surrounding our 1 archipelago and are trying to thrust their way through from the north to the centre of our der fences.”—P.A. and 8.0. W. a
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 February 1942, Page 5
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