Word: sumatra
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...Java and Sumatra, Dutch land forces broke through old truce lines at several points, raced almost unopposed across republican territory. Dutch marines landed in east and central Java. At week's end, the Dutch were marching into the republican oil center at Tjepu (where last September the republic had smashed a Communist uprising...
...knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from the republic in previous fighting. On top of everything else, there was disagreement over interim control of the republican army...
Stalling? Republican leaders suspected that the Dutch were stalling to avoid any kind of settlement. In their "police action" last summer, Dutch troops seized the biggest towns and richest lands of Java, deprived the republic of rule over two-thirds of Java, parts of Sumatra and all of Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed...
...handful of U.S. oilmen, in the path of the Japanese advance through Sumatra, fired the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.'s* $30,000,000 Palembang plant, biggest U.S. refinery in the Far East. Dutch soldiers held off the enemy until the oilmen escaped. The new Japanese proprietors rebuilt the refinery, saw their work undone in two Allied air raids. Few U.S.-owned plants in the Orient had taken such a beating; few staged a faster recovery...
Gibbon had planned his operation with care. With food and equipment stacked up in Java and Singapore, Gibbon and 25 oilmen had entered Sumatra soon after war's end. They combed the Japanese prison camps for some 650 Dutch and Eurasian Standard employees. But it was not until the spring of 1946 that Gibbon got his first U.S. shipment of steel and heavy equipment, and was able to begin rebuilding the plant...