Evening star., 1947-08-11
u. ). Aide Talks
To Indonesiians
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Consul Foote Flies
To Conference With
Republics S Leaders
By the Assoeiofed Press

BATAVIA, Java, Aug. IL
United States Consul General
Walter A. Foote conferred today
in Jogjakarta with Indonesian
Republican President Soekarno
and leading cabinet members in
an effort to restore peace to the
East Indies.
He flew there and back to Batavia
today in an American naval plane.
Informed sources said he had re-
quested clarification of the Repub-
lican reply to an American offer of
its good Offices in settling the con-
f1ict, suspended a week ago by an
uneasy truce, between the natives
and the Dutch. Mr.. Foote said only
it was "a very good trip"
(Jogjakarta dispatches quoted
Mr.. Foote as saying at the con-
clusion of his visit that he had
heard "the opinions of some
people" which he would pass on
to Washington. He added that
the possibility of his return "all
depends on Washington" The
cabinet met Immediately after
his departure for Batavia.)
Both sides asserted the other had
committed truce violations. The
shooting began in earnest on July 20
after the collapse of negotiations for
an interim order until the islands
could achieve independence under
the Dutch crown.
Barbados Block Roads.
AP Photographer Max Desfors,
who flew with the diplomat, said the
roads leading to the Republican cap
ital were blocked with barricades
thrown up against a possible Dutch
attack.
Mr. Foote was the first State De-
partment representative to visit re-
publican territory since the republic
was proclaimed August II, 1945. He
had delayed his takeof until Re
publican Premier Amir Sjarifoeddin
had broadcast assurance that he
would be gladly welcomed" in jog
jakarta and until the Dutch here
had notified their Semarang fighter
base that an American plane was on
the way.
Mr.. Sjarifoeddin accepted the
American offer last week and said
he hoped the end result would be an
international arbitration commission
to settle disagreements between the
republic and the Netherlands.
Delegation to Leave for U. N.
Those disagreements, growing out
of negotiations for a united states
of Indonesia, resulted in the out
break of hostilities in July 20, but by
order of the United Nations Security
Council both sides ordered cease
fire effective last Monday midnight.
An eight-man delegation planned
to leave for Lake Success, N. Y, today
to give the U. N. the viewpoint of
the Dutch and Chinese in the Indies,
the non-Republican sections of East
Indonesia and West Borneo and the
separatist Committee for Sumatra's
East Coast"
Two Republican representatives
Sutan Sjahrir, former premier, and
Foreign Minister Hadji Agoes Salim
already are in New York. Mr..
Sjarifoeddin yesterday broadcast
plea that these two and three others
unnamed Indonesians be recognized
as tie Republican delegation.
The republic today pledged full
restoration of or payment for all
non-Dutch properties destroyed by
the Republican "scorched earth"
policy or by military action during
the conflict.
A statement broadcast by jog
jakarta radio and released here by
Deputy Premier A. K. Gani en-
phasized that Chinese would be
eligible for restitution like all other
foreigners-except the Dutch. The
statement promised legal protection
for all foreigners within Republican
territory without racial discrimina-
ton.
More Violations Charged.
The Dutch army today again &C
cused the republic OF truce viola
tions in both Java and Sumatra,
reported that the Republicans were
continuing scorched-earth tactics
in West Java and said that yester-
day they machine-gunned Pane
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