Ave Unrest

[?]Onesia

L the evidence available in dicates that political unrest and economic and civil dis inces are increasing in nesia. was reported in London early October that Dutch planting ests were abandoning their srties in the East Indies because ;rsistent and uncontrolled loot ly the natives. The Amsterdam ing Co. lost 500 acres of ica; and, out of 1,625 acres it under cassava, 865 acres were iletely looted. The Anglo h Co. had similar experiences. the end of October, the Prime ster of Indonesia reported the very of “a plot fomented by a nation to assassinate Presi- Soekarno and overthrow the ;rnment.”

September and October, as the t of rioting and general dis : the Government had arrested / people—estimated at 15,000. e Danish scientific expedition Galathea was in outlying parts le Indies in September. The or, Mr. Haakon Mielche, a ber of the party, reported in iey that there was unrest, rang from covert disorder to open ing, in several places visited. e Australian Returned Soldiers Lai conference, in November, inded that, if the Dutch were ed to leave Western Guinea, Territory should be added to ralian New Guinea, as a trust the United Nations, and not indered to Indonesia. e Governor of Dutch New ea, and Senior Officers, paid a i-days’ courtesy visit to Port ;sby early in November.