Wanita Komunis ditahan di Sumatra Utara (Communist woman detained in North Sumatra)
Cleaned OCR text (Fair (0.764); proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026)). Old Indonesian spelling has been converted to modern EYD. [Unreadable] marks text that could not be recovered. English translation below.
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[Unreadable] seorang ulama Islam. Pihak berkuasa Polis yang datang ke situ berkata wanita itu membantah dan mengatakan ia tidak bersalah. Setelah dilakukan pemeriksaan teliti didapati satu tanda rahasia di pahanya. [Unreadable] tanda rahasia, demikian kata kantor berita Antara. [Unreadable] mengaku bahwa ia telah ditugaskan untuk membunuh pemimpin Islam [Unreadable].
Antara melaporkan dari Medan bahwa wanita tersebut, anggota barisan wanita Komunis Gerwani, telah dilihat oleh seorang jiran dalam keadaan yang mencurigakan dekat rumah seorang [Unreadable] ulama Islam [Unreadable] Sumatra Utara [Unreadable].
[fragment from adjacent column:] TAHNIAH DARI ALJAZAIR. Ahad — Presiden Houari Boumedienne telah mengucapkan tahniah kepada Tuan Ferdi[Unreadable]
English translation
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[Headline not captured in the clipping: Communist woman detained in North Sumatra]
[JAKARTA, Sunday.] – The North Sumatra authorities have detained a Communist woman who tried to commit [a murder. On her thigh there was a] secret mark, the Antara news agency said.
Antara reported from Medan that the woman, a member of the Communist women's front, Gerwani, had been seen by a neighbour behaving suspiciously near the house of [an] Islamic religious scholar.
Police who came to the scene said the woman protested and said she was not guilty. But after "a careful examination was carried out, a secret mark was found on her thigh." [She then] confessed that she had been assigned to kill [the] Islamic leader.
[Other article: Congratulations from Algeria (Boumedienne) – not translated]