QUISLING No. 1

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25962, 1 October 1945, Page 5

QUISLING No. 1

DUTCH TRAITOR EXPOSED MONITOR RADIOS IN AUSTRALIA (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. SO. It can now be revealed that right through the Pacific war secret Netherlands East Indies listening posts on the north coast of Australia at Broome and Carnarvon intercepted Japanesecontrolled local broadcasts in Netherlands East Indies. Unaware that their broadcasting was being intercepted by the Allies, the Japanese military authorities and their collaborator, Soekarno, waged a vicious anti-Allied political warfare amongst the millions of Java. Day and night Indonesian monitors at Broome and Carnarvon listened in to broadcasting stations in Java, cabling their intercepts to the Netherlands East Indies authorities. Complete reports and analyses revealed a true picture of what was happening inside the Netherlands East Indies right throughout the war. General MacArthur's headquarters regularly drew information from these intercepts and used them often for planning Allied air attacks on strategical points in the Indies. Dutch monitoring reports from Broome and Carnarvon. whicn were treated as highly secret, gave a true picture of the treachery of Soekarno —treachery against the Allied Cause. It also became clear that other prominent Indonesian leaders who were forced by the Japanese into a so-called advisory council at Batavia were most reluctant to make statements and faded out one after the other. Statements published by the Netherlands East Indies Government information service during the last two days regarding the attitude of Indonesian Quisling No. 1— Soekarno—have been based on these secret monitoring reports, which make it impossible for Soekarno to deny his anti-Allied pro-Japanese activities during the last three and a-half years. A letter received at Brisbane, from prominent Indonesians now in Singapore, slates that the Indonesians liberated there declare unanimously that they consider their principal task is to see that Soekarno, who was continuously in league with the Japanese oppressors of the Indonesian people, is taken prisoner. All these people, who have been suffering under (he Japanese domination, feel the greatest hatred for Soekarno.