NO QUISLINGS IN EAST INDIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 6

NO QUISLINGS IN EAST INDIES

Underground Fight

7-MONTHS-OLD NEWS FROM MALAYA

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received October 13, 9.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 12.

“Among the 70,000,000 people in the Dutch East Indies, there is not a single quisling,” declared the former Governor of East Java, Dr. Charles van der Plas. “Even now the Japanese are unable to get a quisling and have been forced to appoint a Japanese mayor of Surabaya. “Indonesians are still fighting the invader in Timor and Borneo, and underground forces are active in Java, many Japanese being killed each night.”

Executions are figuring largely in the vigorous Japanese campaign to “Nipponize” the Straits Settlements, according to the first Chinese to reach Chungking from Malaya since the fall of Singapore, after .seven months of dangerous travel through Siam, IndoChina, and occupied China. lie said that in Singapore and Penang the Japanese had arrested a large number, particularly students, and many were executed because they rejected the Japanese “friendly moves.” The majority of rubber plantations and tin mines were still shut down, and there was a serious food shortage, particularly in south-east Malaya, where thousands were threatened with starvation.

There was frequent friction between Japanese and the inhabitants of Siam and Indo-China. Because of the invaders’ economic plundering in the South Seas the inhabitants lived in dread of Allied bombings.