Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1945 Sep 27 - 1945 Nov 15 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 20 items
Scope and content
Papers relating to liaison between Tull as Commanding Officer 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Java, and the Japanese Army, mainly relating to his instructions to Japanese Gen Nakamura, Central Defence Corps, Magelang, Java, ordering Japanese troops to retain their arms until otherwise ordered, and Nakamura's alleged complicity in handing over Japanese arms to Indonesian nationalists. With memorandum by Tull to Allied Headquarters, Semarang, 28 Oct 1945, commending the actions of Japanese Maj Satoh, Liaison Officer, in leading the defence of the prison camp at Ambarawa against Indonesian nationalists; papers describing size and location of Japanese garrisons on Central Java. 1 file, 20 items