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Show f ' ; : ; ' , -7v- -.,. ; I f-4v v -dvi4 ' wfyM?&m fail ' . : - ' X j t;.,n ' v, :..;. , ' . ....... ... : . ... ...... . . . y&4$'' . ...... j l.u....i.:S I iv.-xi.sG DUiCll INVAL'LiCS . . . Accoutred in Japanese helmets and other odds and ends of equipment, these shabbily outfitted soldiers are members of the Indonesian Republican army whicl tried futilely to fight off the attacjc of Dutch paratroopers who rapidly gained control of Indonesia after overrunning ov-errunning the capital of Jogjakartax in what they described as a "police action.", AH principal Republican leaders were captured. The U. N. good offices committee in Indonesia accused the Dutch of falling to live up to the Renville truce agreement signed last year. Later the Netherlands countered by informing the U. N. security council that it would stop fighting in Java by New Year's eve, and in Sumatra twe or three days later. At the time, some of the U. N. delegates, including Philip C. Jcssup of the U. S., in-torrcted in-torrcted the Dutch action as defiance of the United Nations. |