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.
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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.
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[AA: A1608, F27/2/3]