The British Occupation of Java Chinese civilians are evacuated from the village of Bekassi before it is burnt as a reprisal for the murder of five members of the Royal Air Force and twenty Maharatta riflemen whose Dakota transport aircraft crash landed near the village. The Indonesian residents had already fled when word reached them of the arrival of British and Indian forces.

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