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DUTCH PARTY IN N.E.I. OTHER RESISTANCE CONTINUES (Rec. 1.25 p.m.) Sydney, This Day. Alter nine months’ resistance to the Japanese in Borneo, 69 Dutch officers and men have surrendered. The capture of this party has been previously claimed seven times by Tokio, but it was only when the Dutchmen’s ammunition was exhausted that they finally abandoned the light Although the Japanese announced Dutch resistance had completely ceased throughout the Netherlands East Indies, reports reaching Dutch headquarters in Australia still tell of battle-wounded Japanese soldiers being admitted to Batavia hospitals.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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