CONFISCATION OF INDONESIA MERDEKA COPIES BY SINGAPORE POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200410008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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A Special nu ben of Ixad EL A_ W published by Ferhimp n Indonesia.,
in terdant, and addressed to the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions (SITU).,
has been confiscated by the Singapore polices Printed in R zed 1ay ,
the magazine included the follow a
a) article by LDM Hong Bee *, described as a Malayan Youth Dalega o
The article was contributed on behalf of the .lsya n Now Democratic
Youth League and is addressed to "Democratic Youth in Colonial and
Imperial Countries who are struggling against exploitation." It
eulogizes the USSR and its satelllitesq including the Ge .n
Democratic Republic and the Chinese C( .st Goverment.
b) Another 'article,, unsigned , conde the constitution of the Republik
Irdor.:ssia Serikat,, asserting that the Hague Round. Table Conference
was influenced by the US? It states also that Indonesia is a colony
of the and the Netherlands and that Indonesia's vice president
and prim minister? Mohamed Patta., is an agent of foreign ps rsa
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c) An article on the Peiping conference of the o World Federation
Trade Unions ( U) Speaks of Veeraser patby
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ac of LT R Hong Bee,, publisher of the 2 n Boni t? in Loz~dc~r~?
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and n Cc .tte , member of the British C t Fa y4
Cow o Veerasemn? former president of the SFTU an leader
in the Panes Federation of Tile Unions (P HM), was killed by the
Security Forces in an u ount raid in the spring of 1949.
S.A. Ganapasthy,,. Tail.-apsa g south Indian and former president of the
PMF"TU., was executed in early May 1949 by the British, after arrest and
sentence under the urgency Regulations.
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