Slow Delivery of Cease Fire Message
Rec. 10 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Colonel W. R. Hodgson, at the Security Council meeting to-day, accused the Netherlands Government of deliberately delaying the fire message to the Indonesians. He said the message reached Batavia at mid-day on Saturday and was not passed on to the Indonesian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr A. K. Gani. until 8 p.m. on Sunday. It was the council’s duty, he said, <to ensure that its decisions were communicated to the proper quarters, and he asked that responsible officers of the council go to Indonesia immediately to keep the council informed. . The chairman Fans el Khoury promised to confer with the Secretariat on Colonel Hodgson’s request.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26532, 6 August 1947, Page 5
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