TALKS ON INDONESIA

Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1946, Page 5

TALKS ON INDONESIA

- — - NEGOTIATIONS TO BE CONTlNUEiIN HOLLAiND Received Sunday, 10.15 p.m. BATAV1A, Murch 31. Dr. Van Mook, Sir Ar.chibald ClarffKerr and three Indonesian representative.s appointed by Mr. Sjahrir will! leave for Holland on April 4 to con- J tinue- the talks, An officiai announcenient said the dis- j cussions showed that the viewpoints j had now become elose enough tp justify a visit tp Holland. The Indonesian and Dutch representatives are believed to have re.ached an agreement on essential points, says Reuter' s correspondent. The Dutch, it is believed, gecognise the d.e facto control of Java and' possibly Sumatra by, the Ixidonesi.ans, The Indonesians are understood to reeognise the difficalty ,at this sfcage of .extending their confrpl to other terfitories of the Netherlands East Indies. f he members ofsthe Indonesian mis•sion going to Holland ww be Drs, Doewandi, Soerarsano and Pringgodigdo. They haye no power to engage fn further negotiations, but will place the Indonesian viewpoint before the Dutch Government. One of Mr. Sjahrir 's Cabinet members said: ' 'The Duteh may make a sentimental sacrifice in return for rpal economio adyantage. The agreement, it is stated, contepiplates common citizenship for the Duteh and Indonesians and guarante.ed security for Duteh economic interests. Dutch troops may remain to help police Java. Two Ifidian priyates were killed and twp wounded and two v.ehicles lost as a resplt pf an attack on transpprt vehicfes on the B and oeng-Fjimahi road The assailants -escaped. A pafrol sent oufsfde Bandoeng to .eyacuate Chfnese found a bridge miued and encountered snipers. The patrol repli.ed with mprtars, One British officer and ty/o fpdians wpre wounded. Britfph tanks and arfiilery later engaged the extremists' positiops. No trpces of t.he fjhin .e&e we-o found. Clashes are also reported t'rpm the vicinities of Fjimahi, Buitenzorg, Semarang an,d ^ourghaya. A further continge'nt of Dutch troops has arrived. - . . fhe Netherlands News Agency says that, in response to ,a refhesf from the United States, the Netherland? East Indies Government has put in an indpm■nity claim against Japan for sgypral thousand miilion gpilders. The Indies will he represented on the Allied Reparafions Cpnimission in the Far East.