Following is copy of very urgent report dated twenty-two December
that Committee of Good Offices has transmitted to President of
Security Council. [1] Begins:

1. At approximately 0640 Batavia time on Sunday nineteen December
the members of the Committee of Good Offices were awakened by the
sound of explosions from the direction of Maguwo airport
Jogjakarta. Present at Kaliurang the headquarters of the Committee
at the time were the Australian representative, the Belgian
representative and the deputy of the United States representative.

After the Committee had made a survey of the situation, it held
special meeting at 0845 Batavia time and directed that the
following telegram be transmitted to the United States
representative who had gone to Batavia the day before with the
deputy of the Australian representative:

MOST IMMEDIATE. Cochran, Hotel Des Indes Batavia and care United
States Consul General Batavia. Committee requests the following
message be transmitted to the

Security Council earliest.

'Six a.m. today, Dutch began large scale bombing of Maguwo
airport, Jogjakarta republican capital. Hatta reports bombing of
parts of Jogjakarta itself and the dropping of paratroopers.

Committee calls for immediate meeting of Security Council for
appropriate action.'
Committee authorises Cochran and Cutts to supplement this message
as they see fit and take other appropriate urgent action in
Batavia on behalf of the Committee if communications with
Committee impracticable. Have authorised special release to press
of Committee's supplementary report [2] of December eighteen. Urge
maintenance of communications between Batavia and Jogjakarta.

Confirm receipt. T.K. Critchley, Australia, R.H. Herremans,
Belgium, R.E. Lisle, United States.

2. Every effort was made to have this telegram transmitted to
Batavia. When the Batavia radio failed to answer a general call
was sent out to all stations including ships at sea. A further
attempt to have the message broadcast by the Jogjakarta radio
failed. Later efforts were made to transmit the message during
that day and on twenty and twenty-one December after the arrival
of Netherlands forces. These efforts failed.

3. Late in the afternoon of nineteen December, the delegations and
the Secretariat, at the direction of Republican Military
Officials, rearranged and consolidated their residences in order
to be in a concentrated area which could more readily be
protected.

4. During the night twenty-twenty-one December the Republican
Garrison withdrew. The members of the Republican Delegation
remained.

5. At 1510 Batavia time Monday twenty December the Netherlands
forces arrived in Kaliurang. With the exception of the servants
and Hotel employees most of whom had remained to serve the
delegations, the area appeared deserted. There were a number of
shots fired by the advancing Netherlands forces and gunfire was
heard intermittently during the days that followed. There were
reports of fatal shootings of civilians. The shooting of an
unarmed boy by an Ambonese soldier of the Netherlands forces was
personally witnessed by a member of the Secretariat staff and his
young daughter.

6. Effective communications between Kaliurang and Jogjakarta were
not reestablished through Monday and Tuesday twenty and twenty-one
December.

7. At about goo hours on Wednesday twenty-one December the three
delegations and the Secretariat staff were removed in convoy to
Jogjakarta and late in the afternoon began in three divisions to
fly to Batavia. The Republican Delegation at last reports remained
in Kaliurang confined to restricted limits. Netherlands officers
stated, however, that the Republican delegation would be shortly
removed to Jogjakarta.

8. Throughout nineteen-twenty-twenty-one December numerous
explosions were heard and large columns of smoke were witnessed at
many points in the valley below Kaliurang. Some twelve houses in
Kaliurang were burned down before the arrival of the Netherlands
forces. During the ride down from Kaliurang, it was observed that
most of the houses were closed and that there were few or no
workers to be seen in the fields or along the road. A number of
the bridges had been demolished.

9. On its return to Batavia the Committee took note of the reports
which had been sent to the Security Council by the United States
representative and the deputy of the Australian representative on
nineteen and twenty-one December [3] in the four-day period during
which communications between the Committee at Kaliurang, on the
one hand, and Batavia and the outside world on the other, were
entirely broken. it was noted that the reports made and other
actions taken by the United States representative and the deputy
of the Australian representative were fully authorised not only by
the emergency situation that existed but by the express authority
conferred on them to act for the Committee by the decision taken
by the Committee at Kaliurang at its meeting of nineteen December
1948.

Signed R. Herremans, Belgium Chairman, T.K. Critchley Australia,
H. Merle Cochran, United States.

Ends.