BRITISH NATIONALS
IN REPUBLICAN HANDS Rec. 10 p.m. BATAVIA, Aug. 2. Three British nationals are believed to be with the Repubfican guerrillas who have retreated from ruined Malang, in East Java, to the mountains that ring the city They are Frederick Woods, aged 44, a textile mill manager from Manchester, and his wife Edith, and Albert Ashworth, aged 58. a textile machinery expert f-om Bolton. Lancashire. The party went to Republican Java three months ago to begin rehabilitation of the textile mill at Pasaruen, now in Dutch hands. The mill is jointly owned by the Manchester Calico Printers’ Association and the Dutch. The party stayed most of the time in Malang, and was last heard of living in the famous Selecta mountain resort in the mountains west of the city. A Dutch air reconnaissance yesterday said Selecta was burned to the ground.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 5
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