NO R.A.A.F. ALLOWED TO SERVE WITH DUTCH
Recd. 6 p.m.- Sydney, Nov. 11 The Federal Government has ordered that no member of the R.A.A.F. he allowed to ledve Australia to serve with other forces in Java, said a Government spokesman in Canberra. Last, week a call for ground staff volunteers to serve with the Dutch in Java was officially made at the Bradfield R.A.A.F. camp, Sydney, and a daijy routine order calling for such volunteers was still posted on the notice board at Bradfield yesterday. An officer at Bradfield said many of the ground staff had submitted applications. The Government spokesman said that before the outbreak of trouble in Java, the War Cabinet had agreed to make 250 R.A.A.F. ground staff available to Dutch squadrons. When the trouble developed between the Indonesians and the Dutch; the Government cancelled the arrangements and ordered that no R.A.A.F. members be allowed to go to Java to serve wi h the Dutch.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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