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Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large Javanese forces, well armed with Jap equipment, including tanks, had some 100 casualties. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" flew from Batavia to give a cease-fire order. The next day native hotheads killed Surabaya's British Commander, Brigadier Aubertin W. S. Mallaby...
Between Two Flags. Last week the impatient nationalists responded with more riots. In Batavia roving bands shot it out with British marines. Reports from Surabaya said Indonesians took over an internment camp, holding European women as hostages. When British planes tried to land at the airport, crowds swarmed over the runways. At Bandung exuberant natives occupied key points, beat the British to the job of disarming the Japs...
...hour later our Air Group was aboard. "Give us one more crack at those Jap airfields," they pleaded,"and there'll be no more Jap planes on Java." The Captain's sympathies were with them but he was acting under orders-and the job on Surabaya had been completed...
Wingman Down. With the British (and Jumping Joe in command of the combined air groups) Group Twelve slashed at Jap bases at Sabang on the tip of Sumatra and the once-great Dutch naval base at Surabaya. Group Twelve lost one plane in each show...
...have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship in Surabaya harbor blew...