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Indonesia Rebels Fight in Sumatra (The Daily Telegraph, 12 Oktober 1965)

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=== [PDF page 1] === 24 The Dnily Telegraph, Tuesday, October 12, 1963 INDONESIA REBELS FIGHT IN SUMATRA THREAT TO RUBBER & OIL 14N WARD Daily Telegraph Staf} Correspondent SINGAPORE, Monday. DONESIAN broadcasts disclosed today that fighting between loyal Army troops and Communist rebel forces had spread to the island of Sumatra, the Republic’s major rubber and oil region. Previous Indonesian broadcasts have referred to armed uprisings only in the eastern and central Java areas. Radio Djambi, in south-eastern Sumatra, reported this afternoon that the Army there heavily eng rebel WORLD NEWS BACKGROUND On Page 14 EUROPEAN NOTEBOOK —By Wares Pann forces. bined intensify the operation. d that nthe Ache Kashmir after the —By Rawte Kyox ° = Y tip of Sumatra, was “ getting Israel's crumbling TUC | SP. of San Soy Mates aries The local broadcasting network, Reforms in the East Radio Ba had announced mposition of a nightly eight-hour Office burned VIET CONG Quoting Radio Jakarta, Radio TRAPPED. IN 35: Stee Senate | vat Atjeh, Norta JUNGLE enin Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent cwilian SAIGON, Monday. an Com- A. BIG force of Vier Cong | *“™ and North Vietnamese | the party for d the atrempt oops is reported cornered in a jun ley 280 m North-east of Saigon. Fierce fighting is going on as they try to break out of the trap. | TUNKU OFFERS AID | Fighting Communists ku Abdul avy r country. said Comment—P16 RUSSIAN WARNING Daily MOSCOW, Monday ardediy t t Imp id be any moves to des President kK the Prime the warning to Jaka was ged in tracking Local police, said the broadcast, had comwith Army units to | “open door” policy, was indica- | tive of how muc Radio Malaysia, which monitors Indonesian broadcasts, anthe situation in northernmost Rahman, the . offered Ip the people of against the Comthe Indonesian Com: | § ad a strong organisation | 5° Telegraph Staff Correspondent id President jalism and victors roy the ev, the Soviet party chief, ‘Mikoyan and = Mr. Minister, Cuban exiles staging a ‘Dunkirk’ TAN. BALL Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Monday. SHE Cuban “ Dunkirk,” which began during the weekend with the murder of a Cuban coast guard by a group of exiles, continued today. American authorities escorted a stolen boat, loaded with refugees from Cuba, into Key West, Florida. The four members of its crew were taken into custody after the Coast Guard cutter, Diligence, 930 tons, had intercepted the boat 30 miles off the Cuban coast. The boat. known as MM M, 31ft, was reported to have been stolen last Thursday from Miami. The MM M's journey to Cuba, to evacuat> 76 of the crew's relaunder Dr. Castro's new attention Cuban exiles are paying to Washington's pleas for an “orderly and safe” evacuation. Other vessels have left Florida for the refugee centre, established at the Cuban port of Camarioca, despite American warnings to the | exiles to await the completion of | negotiations | Government. with the Castro Cigars free In Camarioca, Cubans seeking to leave the island said that the | Cuban Government was co-operating fully with the exiles arriving in small boats from the United States Fuel, food and lodging are deing provided free. Drinks and cigars Iso “on the house” in the e centre. The Cubans are providing helis t0 go to the aid of any running into difficulty on om Cuba. But ng allowed to with them POLICE BATTLE WITH ROME BOMB THROWER Daily Telegraph Correspondent ROME, Monday. Police armed with sub-machine id tear-gas grenades, and binieri, fought e early today bombs refuge inside a Rome's main ad officers 1 ts_ finally way into the buildin: body of Lamberto rtini. A bomb had exploded in his hands, kill ing him instantly. He was wearng an anti-gas mask, Wires leading from an electric main to a box filled with explosives showed that he had deliberately prepared a booby trap Cuban retugees_on board the stolen pleasure boat MMM (roreGRouNb) which sailed from Camarioca on Sun In the background is an American patrol boat which intercepted the MMM at sea and took off some ol the refugees. Indian on the West | Karachi today. It 72 hours.” A Pakistani spokesman said Indian forces were “deployed in battle positions” round East Pakistan, including — specially equipped mountain divisions ostensibly held in reserve for use against China. “In preparation for attack” India had a five-mile belt around East Pakistan eared of all civilians in the same way as along the borders of West Pakistan.” “ Plan went wrong” As a “softening-up pri India bombed several East Pakists saboteu e air in cer tain areas “in preparation for an_actual invasion.” The spokes! for the stan but one | which th out of gear the closely worked-out timetable of invasion. India failed seize Lahore by sunset and failed to | overrun West Pakistan in 72! hours.” AN “master-plan for Pakistan” has been discovered among papers left Pakistan front, it “ provided | attack on East Pakistan after; | overrunning West Pakistan in places in | dropped | MS | New Delhi said today that Indian hing went wrong | \INVASION PLOT BY DELHI, SAY PAKISTANIS | JOHN RIDLEY Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent KARACHI, Monday. invasion of East announced in multi-pronged was for a NDIAN CALL FOR BOMB RAWLE KNOX Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent NEW DELHI, Monday. J NFLUENTIAL Congress party politicians believe Mr. Shastri will have to restate his attitude on Indian manufacture of nuclear weapons when Parliament meets next month. He has not vet replied to the letter by 86 M Ps demanding that India make the bomb and has merely said he is “keeping this | communication in a safe place.” A Government spokesman in policy was unchanged. She would not make atomic weapons, y technically-minded M.P.s the economics of Dr. H. |. Bhabha. India’s atomic energy chief, who has said he can give India a “cheap” bomb. British-Soviet exchange of scientists JOHN MILLER Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Monday. OUR leading British scientists will weeks a year spend Soviet scientific today. Three other scientists will work in Russian laboratories for nearly The agreement calls for a year. the equivalent number changes from the Russian side. The agreement, the third since 1956, begins next April. lows increasing contacts in several scientific fields between the two countries. 10-day visit Lord Florey, President of the Royal Society, and Prof. Keldysh, President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, signed the agreement. was returning to Lord Florey London tonight visit. after a Friday. NAESSENS PLEA FAILS Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent Monday. itt today jected an appeal by Gaston Naes. * Anablast treatment for leukaemia. 4: S his sentence of a £1,300 fine. was found guilty on May 15 of ising medicine. PARIS. The Appeal Co! sens, inventor of t illegally pra: lecturing Russia under a new Angloagreement which was signed in Moscow Seven other members of his visiting group are now in Novosibirsk, and will return home on Around America ———— UNBORN BABY’S HEART ‘HEARD’ AT 10 WEEKS DAILY TELEGRAPH STAFF CORRESPONDENTS NEW YORK, Monday. NEW way of detecting life in unborn babies long before their heartbeats can be heard with stethoscopes was described today at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Seattle. Doctors believe the technique will help expectant mothers to feel more secure in the earliest stages of pregnancy. Dr. Robert Rushmer said the method involved the use of a blood flow measuring device. about the size of a torch, which was held to the skin and did not involve puncturing blood vessels. It generated supersonic waves, too high pitched to be audible. Their frequency altered slightly when reflected” from moving particles in the blood. Dr. Rushmer said the technique had picked up the earliest known fetal heart sound, at the age of 10 weeks. BRAIN DRAIN FIGURES One-fifth British A. FIFTH of the 10,200 scientists +% and engineers who emigrated to America in the “brain drain” of 1962 and 1963 were Brit. \ said a study released by the National Science Foundation in Washington today. Canada provided 11 per cent Germany eight per cent. and those of “European birth” made up 53 per cent. of the 10,200. About 7,000 were = enginee: 2,900 natural scientists, mostly chemists, and about 400 social scientists, many of them economists. COMPUTER ARREST Woman sues for £180,000 A WOMAN motorist arrested in public by computer, as she drove in shorts and sandals to the beach, is suing New York City authorities for $500,000 (about £180,000). The woman, Mrs. Gloria Placente, 39, says she was “ridiculed and humiliated.” At the time of her arrest police were demonstrating a computer which stored licence num of traffic offenders, | Numbers of passing cars were fed into it and Placente’s car as d for not paying a fine. BOY DEFENDS FAMILY Intruder shot dead RITEVEN GARRITANO. 15, “* defended his family against three armed robbers, shooting and Garritano was awakened by his mother’s screams the mote! where the family lives. He found his father and sister being whipped because they refused to give money to two men and a woman who had broken in. He grabbed a pistol from a drawer and shot one man dead. The other intruders fled. ENGLAND “BACKWARD” Shawcross’s view FENGLAND is in “the borse 4 and bugey stage of police work, compared with Chicago. Lord Shawcross said today after touring Chicago's new police headquarters. Britain would have to spend more money to modernis> her police forces. | Lord Shawcross is visinng America to address the annual lunch of the Chicago Crime Commission He_ was particularly impressed by Chicago's declining crime rate. “ GOLDEN ” BUTTONS Collectors pay $25 ABOUT 2.000 members of the 44 National Button Society discussed the “Golden Age of Buttons.” at their convention in Concord, New Hampshire. today Buttons from the days of individual design and craftsmanship were on display. Some scarce American military buttons, from the uniforms of Confederate. troops in the American Civil War. were aid for $25 each (£8 18s.) DANDRIDGE’S WILL Cremation request TPVHE will of Dorothy Dandridge, the actress, in which she predicted the manner of her death, was submitted for probate today in Los Angeles. She died last month of natural causes 4t the age of 4 Her will asked that none of the clothes “I have on, scarf, gown or underwear,” should be removed from the body and that she be cremated immediately. T V NETWORK PLANNED Four hours weekly A. NEW commercial television <4 network. to be known as Prime Network. is being organised in New York and hopes to begin operations in 15 cities by next summer, it was learned 'n New Yo vy The are Mr. Svilvester Weaver, former ch: man of the National Broadcasting Co.. and Mr. Oliver Treyz. former President of the American Broadcasting Co. televisior network. $3,700m plane orders airlines have 4 MERICAN jet a valued at $3,700 lion (£1,321 million) on order delivery by the end of 1969. 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