BANDUNG: Commando units of the Indonesian Army flown from Jakarta and Sourabaya re-occupied Bandung early today [Jan 24].
They took over ... posts abandoned by the Indonesians who fled when Turko Westerling`s forces seized the city yesterday. Dutch troops had controlled the city between Westerling`s withdrawal last night and the arrival of the airborne units this morning. ... The occupation yesterday of Bandung was really a mutiny of the large number of Dutch forces stationed there, said Colonel Simatupang, Chief of Staff of the Indonesian armed forces today. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by a correspondent in Karachi,] Pakistan will take over the railway section from Godagarighat to the border (between Rohanpur and Singhabad) from Jan 29 midnight. ... The railway section was given to the Oudh Tirhut Railway temporarily under an inter-Dominion Agreement. Pakistan`s decision to take over ... was a sequel to the stoppage of through-bookings between the Indian Railways and the East Pakistan Railway, on Dec 21. A spokesman of the Communications Ministry refuted the allegation that Pakistan had banned goods and passengers traffic to and from India. ...