Word: tapanuli
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...failure of reinforcements to arrive from North and Central Sumatra. Colonel Simbolon, the rebel Foreign Minister, had set out for Medan from the rebel capital of Bukittinggi, but his 100-truck column was bogged down by monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore of Lake Toba...
...owned Standard Vacuum Oil Co. and the last major oil installation remaining in rebel hands. Colonel Simbolon had finally pushed through to the vital road junction of Pematang-siantar, joining up with Nangolan's battered forces from Lake Toba and the rebel column from Tapanuli. but he appeared more concerned with defense than with another attack on Medan...
...sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills of Tapanuli with some 200 followers...
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