Note To Security Council On Intervention

Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1948, Page 5

Note To Security Council On Intervention

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-Reuter.

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Received Tuesday, 9.'50 a.m. BATAVIA, Dec. 20. While the Dutch "police action" continues in Indonesia, the Dutch Government, in a_ memorandum to the ^Security Council todjay, said that international intervention could. be of no further use in the conflict. The Dutch Governmeiit had empowered its High CommiSsiolier to take any steps necessary to establish security. Reuter's Batavia correspondent says. that the latest Dutch censorship restriction, prohibiting the Press cabling any operational news except that contained in official communiques, is unlikely to be violated since with Jog'jakarta radio silent Dutch official sources are virtually the only sources of information for events in the interior of Java and Sumatra. Nevertheless, the Dutch Army headquarters are being most reticent with operational news, and tonight's 44-word communique briefly mentions three points reached by the advancing Dutch ground forces on widely separated fronts in Java and Sumatra. The announcement that the Dutch mar.ines who landed at Tolban, on the north coast of Java, yesterday have reached the outskirts of Tjepoe, which

is an lmportant oil centre, is possibly the most most significant point of the available information. Boekittinggi, in West Sumatra, from which some Republican broadcasts have been heard since the Dutch offensive began, seems lo be the objective of the Dutch i'orces from Padeng, who, according to a communique, have reached a point 70 miles south of Boekittinggi. In East Java Dutch troops have reached Toeren, 24 miles south east of Malang.