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No Australians
In N. Sumatra
MELBOURNE, Thursday.
-No Australian citizens
were known to be working
in North Sumatra in the
area now being disputed , by
a section of the Indonesian
Army and the Central
Government, the Minister
for External Affairs, Mr.
Casey, said to-night.
Mr. Casey was comment
ing on reports that foreign
nationals, including 50
Australians working on
tobacco and rubber estates
in North Sumatra, might
become a target for terror
ists as the result of the
arming of workers oh some
estates.
Mr. Casey said the re
ports were ill-founded. The
Australian Embassy in
Djakarta had reported that
no Australian citizens were
known to be in the area in
question, and there were
considerably 1g33 than 50
Australians in the whole
Sumatra.
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