Keng Po, Chinese Batavia daily, published a report on March 15th
of an attack by three hundred Dutch airborne troops on Wonosari, a
town about twenty miles south east of Djokjakarta. Yesterday,
March 21st, the commission received a telegram from Roem
requesting that it investigate the truth of the report and, if
found to be true, to 'forward a protest to the Security Council
against the renewed Dutch aggression showing utter contempt of the
Security Council's resolution'. [1]

2. According to Republican sources Wonosari, headquarters of the
Republican administration and the Military Command in Java, was
attacked by three bombers and six fighters on March 10th. This was
followed by a landing of nearly five hundred Para-troops, conveyed
in eighteen transport planes, who were joined by infantry forces
from Djokjakarta. The Republicans, forewarned, had evacuated the
town the previous day. No officials or soldiers were killed or
captured but sixty villagers were killed and thirty injured.

Following this attack there is terrorism throughout the region.

3. I am endeavouring to have the matter completely investigated by
the Military observers so that a full report can be forwarded to
the Security Council as early as possible.

4. Cutts visited Djokjakarta yesterday with the United States [2]
and Belgian [3] deputies to enquire into the Republican
allegations of recent political arrests and into the general
political situation. The party interviewed the Dutch Commander
[4], three members of the Republican Government still in
Djokjakarta (Djoenda, Laoh and the Sultan of Djokjakarta), and
other Republican officials. The main impressions of the visit
were:

(a) The Republicans are confident that the re-establishment of
their government at Djokjakarta will present no serious practical
or political difficulties provided assistance is given in supply
of material and equipment including arms for the police. They
claim that the Republican civil administration is intact, either
underground, or outside the town and that there would be no
personnel difficulties. The Sultan has prepared a plan for the
resumption of authority and would be prepared to assume
responsibility for law and order in Djokjakarta at three days'
notice. He would use the Republican police force which is intact
outside the town and with which he is in constant touch;

(b) Though this confidence seems justified at present, time is an
urgent factor, as economic pressure will shortly force most of
Republican Civil Servants either to accept work with the Dutch, or
to [le]ave Djokjakarta. Djoenda estimates that few junior
officials will be able to hold out beyond the end of this month
while many of the more senior ones will feel the pinch by the end
of April.

(c) Every night there is heavy fire in Djokjakarta and looting and
brigandage continues on a considerable scale;

(d) The Dutch Military authorities are bitterly opposed to the re-
establishment of the Republican Government in Djokjakarta.