UGLY DEMONSTRATION AT PORT SAID
Received Monday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 10. When the steamship Volendam arrived at Port Said yesterday with 3000 troops, bound, it was said, for the Far East,. handreds of demonstrators waving Egyptian and Indonesian flags, locked up the water and oil supply, reports the Associated Press' Port Said correspondent. Workers awaiting the ship's arrival ashore then put out in launches and other small craft, shouting slogans, and surrounded the Volendam, where she lay at anchor outside the harbour. When an attempt was made to take out supplies to the ship, the demonstrators' craft battled with the fifteen police boats escorting the supply boats. The police arrested 20 and brought them into Port Said, where the arrival touched off further demonstrations in which crowds paraded the streets, shouting, "Down with Dutch imperialism; Long live free Indonesia," until the police dispersed them with clubs. Reliable sources told the correspondent that the ship had taken on major supplies at Haifa, as trouble was predicted at Port Said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1947, Page 5
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