EVACUATION OF JAPS FROM INDIES

Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1946, Page 5

EVACUATION OF JAPS FROM INDIES

GREAT TREK TO REGIN Received Thursday 11.45 p.m. BATAVIA, April 4. Thirty thousand Japanese and ahout 1500 Eurasian internees are beginning a great trek to the coust from Contrai Java next week under the terms of tne evacuation agreement hetween tne Allies and the Indonesians. Announcing the details of the evacuation, the Indonesian Minister, Mr. Sjarifuddin, said the Japanese and the internees would be moved simultaneously where possible. If the train accommodaticn is inadequate, the Japanese must rnarch to central ports, when they will be shipped to Galang, an island south of Singapore. The Japanese will also he used as porters for the internees, who had heen interned since the Japanese occupation. The British autliorities have agreea to arm two T.R.K. (Indonesian Preservation Corps) battalions to protect the evacuation and are also providing trucks, and air transport if neccssary. The evacuees wiil be shipped to their destinations from the ports of Tegal, west of Semarang, and Probolinggo, east of Sourabaya. Tne Japanese units are carrying their arms to the coast, .and war stores left hehind will be destroyed. Japanese attempting to evade evacuation will be shot. The Japanese will help to arrange the evacuation, which is expected to take two or three months. There are at present 36,653 Japanese in Java. (Sir Archibald Clark-Xerr, Dr. Vah and the Indonesian delegation havO left by air for The Hague for talks which are expected to last less than a week. A Rotterdam message says that the Premier, with the Poreign Minister ana the Minister of Overseas Territories, will consult the British Cabinet after Dr. Van Mook reports on the talks.