Indonesians Leave City In Ruins
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Received Friday, 9.50 a.m. BATaVIA, July 31. A Diitch communique anhounced chat Netherlands troops oeCupied Malang, the s&at of the Repubhcan Provisional GoVerhmehr, * this morning. The Aneta news age'ncy correspondent with the Dutch forces in East Java says that Malang was a wilderness of desLfoyed buildings. Important buildings, . factories 5 a coxivent.and cinemas were blowh up by the retreatihg indonesians days before the occupation. - .Sftops were pillaged and the city was dead. x Chinese and Europeans who had stayed behind wandered bewildered among the rUihs. The rest of i,ne city's population of 100,000 had fied to the difiicult mountain eountry around the once b/auuful city. Everywhere Malang was a picture of desolation. According to those who remained, the looting began a week ago and at the same time de'molitions began by East Java's revolutionary army.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1947, Page 5
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