BRITISH UNIFORMS SMUGGLED TO INDONESIANS
| — Received Thursday, 11 a.m. LONDON, JULY 17. British Army uniforms are being smuggled from Singapore across the Straits of Malacca and are being supplied to the_ Indonesian Army, says the Associated Press Singapore correspondent. The smuggling traffie was revealed by a British officer when _ the skipper and crew, all Indonesians, off. a • mothr vessel. were fined for heihg . ' in- -pQssgss.ion of thal es of British military' uniforms. A police lauhch chased the motor vessel, caught up with her as she was about to clear the breakwater and found the uniforms hidden unaer tools.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 July 1946, Page 5
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