Communists Banned in Jakarta Area (The Daily Telegraph, 19 Oktober 1965)

=== [PDF page 1] === COMMUNISTS BANNED IN J AKARTA AREA ‘ATTACKS IN SUMATRA’ SINGAPORE, Monday. THE Indonesian Government has banned the Indonesian Communist party in Jakarta and the surrounding area, Radio Jakarta announced tonight. Attacks against Communist offices were Teported to be taking place throughout the island of Sumatra. The ban was announced by the chief of the Jakarta Army Command, Maj.-Gen. Kasomo. He said that to maintain Peace and security, action had been taken against all Political parties and mass organisations involved in the PROTEST BY CHINA AFTER ARMED RAID DAVID FLOYD Daily Telegraph Speciai Corresoondent on Communist Affairs HE Chinese Government yesterday delivered a Strongly-worded protest to the Government of Indonesia at the Indonesian Army’s raid on the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta last Saturday. In a Note handed to the Indonesian ambassador in Peking the Cninese described that attack as “an extremely serious provocation against the Republic of China and the Chinese people.” It said that 40 Indonesian soldiers surrounded the office of the commercial counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, opened fire on the building and forced their way in. Staff were threatened with rifles while the offices and apartments were ransacked, Apology demanded China demanded an apology and the punishment of the cul- Prits and complained of/an “ anti- Chinese wave" in Indonesia since the abortive coup of Sept. 30. Yesterday's protest by the Chinese indicates vhat they have now, after much _ hesitation, accepted the fatt of a major defeat for Chinese influence in Indonesia. The Indonesian Communist party, with some 3,000.000 members. is the largest Communist party outside the Communist bloc. Even if it is permitted to continue its existence in some form.,it will be thoroughly purged of Chinese influence. 100 PERON ARRESTS BUENOS AIRES, Monday. Police using tear gas arrested more than 100 demonstrators during clashes at a banned Peronist rally in Buenos Aires last night. The rally was to mark the rise to power of the former Presi. dent, Seftor Peron, 20 years ago. —Reuter. recent abortive coup. The ban, which would probably be temporary, also applies to a number of affiliates to the Communist party in the greater Jakarta area. Gen. Kasomo ordered all leaders of these organisations to Teport to the nearest _ police station or military post by Sunday. Severe action would be taken against those who did not comply. _ The Jakarta broadcast was the first official allegation that the Communists were involved in the Oct. | coup attempt. Among people reported today to have been arrested were Mr. Sukirman, Director of the Government-run Jakarta radio; Mr. Graha, chief editor of Suluh Indonesia, the Indonesian Nationalist. party organ; and four journalists and staff of Antara, the official news agency. Right-wing victory Organisations affected by the ban apart from the Communist party included the People’s Youth Front (Permuda Rakjat), the Communist Women's Organisation (Gerwani), the Indonesian Scientists’ Association (H.S.1), and three student organisations. The ban appeared to be a major victory for the right-wing Army and its drive to smash the Communist movement, strongly entrenched in Indonesia. Reports said that Communists had been arrested in Sumatra, parts of Java island, and the outer islands. In Banda Atijeh, Northern Sumatra, a mob occupied the local Communist office. In Palembang. Southern Sumatra, security police arrested 31 people who wore yellow uni- | forms and who are suspected of taking part in the coup attempt. nd AP. —Reuter BRITON WOUNDED Daily Telegraph Correspondent ADEN, Monday. A British soldier was slightly | wounded in the leg when | grenade was thrown at a patrol in the Steamer Point district of Aden today. The area was cordoned off and searched but the assailant escaped. é At the Show this year, as every year, the majority of British cars are f “AP cars’. Each contains at least one component made by the companies within the AP Group. Brake units, clutches, steering and suspension “joints, or filters—sometimes all of them. This is an association with | Tea planters choose to go on trial Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent NEW DELHI, Monday. NHREE British tea planters in Assam today asked to face trial rather than be deported. Their principals have been trying to get them out of the country without fuss. The men, assistant managers of tes in Upper Assam, were arrested on Oct. by Indian police. They will appear in a magistrate’s court on Thursday. Their names are given as Messrs Irving-Bell, N. G, Watts and A. R. P. Ede, Reports that they had been deported have been denied. They were arrested after being questioned by a village defence committee. According to these defence volunteers. one planter. asked his name. is alleged to have replied: “President Ayub Khan.” “ Prejudicial ” to India The behaviour of at least a section of the British community a | in Assam is prejudicial to_ Indian interests, an Assam State Government spokesman said in Shillong yesterday. There are about 200 British nationals in North Assam, —Reuter. avy team, by a joint Arm shrine, eight miles from Srinagar. The meeting was addressed | by two leaders of the Kashmir | Self-determination Movement. | About 5,000 Moslems were present. Some of the demonstrators chanted: “ We want a plebiscite.” They smashed the windows of Passing cars. A Government statement later said that a district magistrate and a police superintendent had been injured in the demonstration, Fifteen policemen had also been hurt when stones were thrown, five of them seriously, the statement added. Road guarded Clusters of armed police and | soldiers tonight lined the road | between Srinagar and the shrine. All Government — schools the motor industry that goes back some thirty-five years and continues in this year’s newcomers. And it’s not only British cars, alot of the continental entries too are “AP cars”. , just look around—"AP cars” everywhere. This is the achievement of the AP Group. In the Show and outside. A Westland SRN3 Hoyercralt a on the River Rajang, near Sibu, The craft covered a journey of 112 miles in 22 hours. POLICE FIRE TO QUELL KASHMIR RIOTERS SRINAGAR, Indian Kashmir, Monday. LICE used tear-gas and fired into the air to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Moslems demonstrating for a plebiscite in Kashmir near Srinagar today. The demonstration occurred after a meeting at the Hazratbal tiating dangerous rapids West Borneo, during trials Srinagar were closed today. Their closure was ordered after student disturbances last week. Indian officials say the students are being agitated by Pakistani agents. —Reuter. PAKISTAN WITHDRAWAL Request to U.N. OUR SRINAGAR CORRESPONDENT cabled last night: Mr. Sadiq, Chief Minister of Indian Kashmir, indicated today that India would ask the United Nations to persuade Pakistan to vacate parts parts of Kashmir occupied by her after the ceasefire between the two countries. He ruled out negotiations on Kashmir except on the basis that the State was a part of India. Mr. Sadiq had just returned from New Delhi, where he had talks with Mr. Shastri, Indian Prime in | Minister. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS GROUP China ‘peace’ overtures for India RAWLE KNOX Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent NEW DELHI, Monday. yyoia has been told by Rumanian diplomats that they consider there is room for talks with China on the border dispute between them. Officials in Bucharest have indicated that Peking’s alliance with Pakistan was purely a matter of expediency. No formal proposal was put to President Radhakrisbna on his recent foreign tour, which included Bucharest, but informal suggestions were made. An Indian Government spokesman said today that India still considered that Peking must accept unconditionally the socalled “Colombo proposals” before talks were possible. This means that China has only to withdraw seven civilian posts in Ladakh or accept parity of Indian posts in that area. All else is agreed. Small gesture By so small a gesture China could bring India to the conference table. There are stirrings of sentiment to show that India might, in the not too distant future, be willing for discussions. Mr. R. K. Nehru, former Ambassador in Peking, argued publicly a few days ago that ambassadors should be restored in Peking and Delhi. When one of his audience suggested that India should make every effort to renew friendship with China he was all but shouted down. Public opinion, battered steadily by the Government over the past three years into a belief that the Chinese dragon is a monstrous enemy is not yet ready to turn about. But the Defence and External Affairs Ministries are quietly working on the probable cost of having to maintain both Pakistan and China as full-scale enemies into the unforseeable future. U.S. ATTACKED FOR ‘BETRAYAL’ PAKISTAN Daily Telegraph Staff Correspondent RAWALPINDI, Monday. The United States Government in general and Mr. Walter McConaughy, American Ambassador to Pakistan, in particular are bitterly criticised in editorials in the leading Pakistani newspapers today Anti-American feeling in the country has been increasing recentiy. The general attitude is that Pakistan has been betrayed in the struggle against India by what was thought to be an ally. Air Marshal Nur Khan, C.-in-C. Pakistani Air Force, today allowed foreign correspondents to visit airfields. He said that since Sept 1 and the ceasefire on Sept. 23 he lost eight Sabre jet fighters out of his total force of about 100. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY (BOLTON) LTD. LOCKHEED HYDRAULIC BRAKE COMPANY LTD, LEAMINGTON SPA BORG & BECK COMPANY LTD, LEAMINGTON SPA AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD. BANBURY LOCKHEED PRECISION PRODUCTS LTD., LIVERPOOL The Dally Telegraph, Tuesday, October 19, 1965 95 Britain’s opportunity in Europe IR—The broad views of Presi. dent de Gaulle on the Common Market organisation should have been plain for some time, but have been misunderstood, sometimes wilfully, by those who have held him up as the bogyman of Europe. It must be remembered that the General assumed power after the Treaty of Rome had been signed and was in no way responsible for . When he mmm m, vetoed British LETTERS entry it was not, I am con- TO THE vinced, | owing OR ¢ any hostility to his old ally. HHMI FP ase cases objecting as he did to the dictatorial supra-national power of the European Economic Community Commission, he feared that the British Government, committed as it then was to seeking entry under the Treaty, would perpetuate and strengthen that uuthority and work for the object of a United States of Western Europe inherent in it To very many people in Britain the organisation under the Treaty was misconceived, Such an organisation shouid not be achieved by a rigid, overweening and overpowerful blueprint of a central authority which all | member nations must obey: as it were a top-heavy inverted pyramid, It should be built up patiently and laboriousiy from below by ever closer ties, political, military, financial and economic. Even the strongest opponents of Britain’s entry under the Treaty were and are ready to welcome any sound moves to assuage the ancient European animosities and to bring the nations ever closer together, provided the Commonwealth ties (already horribiy weakened over the last years instead of strengthened) were maintained and British sovereignty not destroyed. Tt was not a case of being against “going into Europe.” Britain has always been a part of Europe. It was a case of signing or not signing the Treaty of Rome of 1957. Far from endeavouring to bypass France or wait in the hope that another Government might change the French attitude, British statesmanship, which now has a brilliant opportunity, should work in close coliaboration with the French and the other nations, the European Free Trade Association included, towards elaborating a more elastic, less ambitious and less dictatorial system than that provided by the Treaty. The objectives of a closer concord would be maintained, with a co-operative instead of a reiuctant France and a suspicious and divided Britain. In this over-excited though strangely invigorating world it is well to recall the words of a shrewd old gentleman, Count Taaffe, Prime Minister of Austria in the last century, “The peculiarity of the ideal is that it is never attained.” Your obedient servant, MAURICE PETHERICK. Taormina, Sicily. IR—Doe Castle in Co. Donegal has a long and colourful history. But one of its best remembered tenants was Gen. George Vaughan Harte, of Kilderry, Muff. In India the General captured the servant of a slain foe and brought him back to Ireland, to live at the castle. The sere vant always wore native dress and slept on a mat outside his master’s door. My photograph (above) shows the remains of Doe Castle with the initials of George Vaughan Harte above he door, Yours sincerely, Belfast. JIM BENNETT. eed Spurious “party image” IR—A member of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association opposed the adoption of Mr. John Smith as candidate on the grounds that this would present “entirely the wrong image for the Conservative There seems to be some pretty loose thinking about this question of “image "—a word which, in any case, most serious public relations practitioners detest. The problem which faces the Conservative party is not the projection of some imaginary “ image" which is thought at the moment to have popular appeal, but the gaining of a widespread understanding of what the party actually stands for. It is no less appropriate that the Cities should be represented by an Etonian director of Rolls- Royce and Coutts than that Wallasey should be represented by Mr. Marples. The party can justly claim to speak for the more forward-looking, _clear-thinking and successful people in all sections of the community, and will not benefit from the denigration of any section (even that durable old Aunt Sally, Eton) for the sake of a spurious “ image.” Yours faithfully, COLIN MANN. London, S.W.1. Other Letters—P16 HILL & JACKSON (SPRINGS) LTD, WEST BROMWICH BRITISH AUTOMOTIVE. INDUSTRIES (PTY) LTD., AUSTRALIA AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY OF SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY (NEW ZEALAND) LTD. === [PDF page 2] === Reuter, and AP. "Communists Banned in Jakarta Area." Daily Telegraph, 19 Oct. 1965, p. 25. The Telegraph Historical Archive, link.gale.com/apps/doc/l00708619887/GDCS? u=columbiau&sid=bookmark-GDCS. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.