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411 Prime Minister's Department to Mr H.A. Peterson, Australian Government Commissioner in the Netherlands East Indies

Cablegram unnumbered 7 December 1939,

SECRET

At request of Government of Netherlands East Indies, Mr Casey [1]
and Brodribb [2] have arranged for discussion Netherlands Army
authorities at Sourabaya during the evening that they will spend
there on their way through to Australia by air. [3] Please inform
Netherlands authorities that they expect arrive Sourabaya
approximately 14th December, date depending upon flying boat
maintaining schedule time.

1 R.G. Casey, Minister for Supply and Development.

2 N.K.S. Brodribb, Controller-General of Munitions Supply.

3 For information on the background to this discussion, which was
concerned with the supply of ammunition, see file AA: A981, NE1
15, i.


[AA: A1608, F27/2/3]
Last Updated: 11 September 2013
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