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About 25,000 of the traumatized Chinese have descended on the sleepy West Borneo port of Pontianak, where they live in dismal squalor. The Chinese are crammed into makeshift quarters, bathe in muddy, sewage-filled canals and wander aimlessly along the waterfront, many of them without homes or hope. Pontianak's Communist propagandists could easily use these displaced Chinese as a breeding ground for more unrest and tension...
Back in Batavia, however, another influential Indonesian leader, Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
...bombed, then occupied western Borneo's port of Pontianak on the South China Sea. He completed his occupation of Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. He hurled bombs, then troops at the Indie's No. 2 naval base, Amboina in the Moluccas. The brave, brown Amboinese met the enemy with skill at marksmanship and the bayonet. But they were too few and they lacked both naval and air support. The Dutch sadly announced that demolition squads, long trained for just such preventive waste, had wrecked every useful thing in Amboina...
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