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Sultan of Ternate
Rescued from
Japanese
MELBOURNE, Sunday.
The N.E.I. Information Service re-
veals that the ruling Sultan of her-
name has escaped from the Japanese
after holding out to the last in protecting
his people against Jap bark
charity.
The Sultan's domain embraces the
territory in which Australians have
been fighting.
Ternate is in the Moluccas group
of islands.
The Sultan was rescued by a secret
raiding party from IST. boats in
the middle of the night. He risked
his life with all the means at his
disposal in opposing the demands of
Jap generals and admirals in an attempt
to improve the lot of his
people, and when it was apparent
that nothing more could be done he
communicated with the Dutch authorities
who organised the rescue.
The Sultan's forefathers during
the past 350 years,' had been friendly
toward the Dutch administration.
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