Pirates In Nei

mHE Commanding Officer of the Nether- JL lands Navy in Sourabaya, set a trap to capture pirates, who are attacking peaceful Buginese and Macassar prahus in the vicinity of Sourabaya, murdering the crews and looting the cargo, according to official Netherlands Navy Information Service communique.

A harmless-looking prahu sailing off Sembilangah (Madura) was boarded by pirates from an armed Madurese prahu.

The pirates expected to find them an easy prey but to their surprise came face to face with well-armed Netherlands sailors.

After a short struggle, without casualties on the Dutch side, the pirates were cap tured. Arms, ammunition, hand grenades

and incriminating documents, proving that the TRI (Indonesian Republican Army) is allowing this form of piracy, were found aboard the pirate ship.

Captain Ernest Whitehouse, of ANGAU, who served 4s years at Kiriwina, Tobriand Islands, is spending leave in South Aus tralia with his wife and family. His son, Joe, is doing First Year Medicine at the University after four years in the AIF; and daughter Pat is in training as a nurse in Adelaide. Both spent their early years at Kiriwina and Samarai. Mr, Whitehouse was in the Papuan Public Service from 1918 (when he returned from World War I) until 1942.