INDONESIANS IN CONGO
Unorthodox T actics
(N.ZJr.A.-Reuter —Copyright) CAPE TOWN, May 8. Indones.an troops in the Congo used to creep up to hostile Congolese forces and kick them on the shins, an Indonesian officer said in Cape Town today. "This was always a great surprise to them,” he said. "They weren't very well organised” Commander Solichin, officer in charge of 1148 Indonesian soldiers now homeward bound after eight months with the United Nations force, said his men. skilled in jungle warfare, were trained to kill. “But in eight months we did not fire one of the thousands of rounds we brought with us,” he told a “Johannesburg Star” correspondent He said that when Congolese troops fired at them, the Indonesians crept through the Congolese lines, and captured their commanding officer Then they persuaded him to call off his troops. “It always worked,” he said The United Nations is preparing to “crack down" on white "mercenaries" in the Katanga Army in the Nyunzu area, well-informed sources said in Elisabethville today. These “mercenaries” are mainly South African, British and other non-Belgian troops
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 15
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180INDONESIANS IN CONGO Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 15
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