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BRITISH COMPLETE
OCCUPATION TASK
IN JAVA
LONDON, Thursday.
Revealing the British occupation
force in Java had completed the job
for which they were assigned, of
disarming and concentrating the Japanese
troops and rescue of Dutch in-
ternees, Lord Louis Mountbatten said
the British evacuation was proceed-
ing but would not be completed before
the end of the year
He expressed the view that civil
war was not likely to develop between
the Dutch and Indonesian Republicans
as the latter were not
equipped to fight against organised
forces from Europe.
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