Armed Java Reds Flee to Hills to Escape Dragnet (Evening Post, 12 October 1965), clipping on arrests and Aceh office
Clipping from the Evening Post of 12 Oct 1965: US embassy dependants withdrawn; hundreds of Communist branch officials detained, Bandung committee arrested in Yogyakarta; Jakarta curfew eased. Communist youth, women's and trade-union offices ransacked in Jakarta, and a crowd burned the Gerwani office in Aceh, north Sumatra, per Radio Malaysia quoting Radio Jakarta.
Kliping Evening Post 12 Okt 1965: keluarga staf kedubes AS ditarik; ratusan pengurus cabang komunis ditahan, komite Bandung ditangkap di Yogyakarta; jam malam Jakarta dilonggarkan. Kantor organisasi pemuda, perempuan dan serikat buruh komunis digeledah di Jakarta, dan massa membakar kantor Gerwani di Aceh, Sumatra Utara, menurut Radio Malaysia mengutip Radio Jakarta.
“'A crowd today burned down the office of the Indonesian Communist Women's Organisation, Gerwani, at Atjeh, north Sumatra, according to Radio Malayasia, quoting Radio Jacarta.'”
Evening Post (Wellington), 12 Oct 1965, NZPA-Reuter report: Communists flee into Central Java hills from an Army dragnet; branch officials detained; US embassy dependants withdrawn. Mobs ransacked Communist youth, women's and trade-union offices in Jakarta; per Radio Malaysia quoting Radio Jakarta, a crowd burned the G
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Headline-only clipping 'Armed Java Reds Flee to Hills to Escape Dragnet' from the Evening Post of 12 Oct 1965; the Gerwani passage is not in this fragment.
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Opening clipping of the Evening Post article of 12 Oct 1965: tension in Central Java, where thousands of Communists, some armed, have fled into the hills from an Army dragnet. Gerwani is not mentioned in this fragment.
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Geraldton Guardian, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: wire report on rising tension as the Army purges Communists. Mentions a Radio Indonesia broadcast, via Radio Malaysia, that a crowd burned down the Aceh office of the Communist women's organisation Gerwani; Soviet leaders warn Sukarno against attacks on Communists; the US evacuate
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Geraldton Guardian, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: wire report on rising tension as the Army purges Communists. Mentions a Radio Indonesia broadcast, via Radio Malaysia, that a crowd burned down the Aceh office of the Communist women's organisation Gerwani; Soviet leaders warn Sukarno against attacks on Communists; the US evacuate
shared: Indonesian Army, Howard Green, Yogyakarta, Central Java
Walliser Volksfreund (13 Oct 1965) running the Reuter report on the hunt for Communists: flight into Central Java mountains, Muslim attacks on PKI offices in Bandung, and an angry crowd burning down Gerwani premises in Aceh per Radio Djakarta. Includes a photo caption of the burned PKI headquarters.
shared: Radio Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Bandung
Closing clipping of the Evening Post article of 12 Oct 1965: Radio Malaysia says Army units in Sumatra are ordered to disarm and break up armed Communist groups, assisted by police; the Soviet leaders Brezhnev, Kosygin and Mikoyan warn Sukarno that blows against anti-imperialist forces are a gift to imperialism. Gerwan
shared: Indonesian Army, Radio Malaysia, Sumatra, attacks on premises
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12 Oct 1965, 'Normalisation in Indonesia' (Reuter/UPI wire digest). Items: armed Communists fleeing into Central Java mountains, Antara placed under military management, evacuation of American embassy families, and a Swiss ambassador's credentials. Relevant here: Malaysian radio, citing Radio Jaka
shared: Radio Jakarta, Central Java, Medan, Aceh