RED CROSS HOSPITAL
ATTACKED BY EXTREMISTS (Rec., 11.50 a.m.) London, Dec., 23. One patient and two Indonesian servants were killed and six Indonesian servants wounded, when extremists attacked a Red Cross hospital in the Kramat area yesterday, says the Batavia correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. British tanks were employed to restore order and Kramat was placed out of bounds to all British troops A British communique announced that extremists shot up two R.A.F. trucks yesterday in the Kramat area and killed one Dutch officer, one membe of the R.A.F. and wounded a member of the R.A.F. The attack on the hospital commenced without warning. As bullets whizzed through the building, the inmates sought cover in the kitchen at the rear. Patients who attempted to run out to warn the British and Indian guards were shot down. Order was restored at dusk after the arrival of tanks. Sporadic firing again broke ou': this morning.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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156RED CROSS HOSPITAL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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