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What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...last night of February she headed out from Tanjong Priok, Batavia, to take up a new stand off the South Java coast. With her were the Australian cruiser Perth and one Dutch destroyer. Half her crew was at battle stations, the rest flopped exhausted in their bunks...