THE German invasion of Holland and the flight of Queen Wilhelmina's Government have thrown the Dutch East Indies largely on their own devices. Indeed, as these lines are written there are indications ...

WE are indebted to the Royal Observatory of Batavia for the following valuable publications:—(1) meteorological, magnetical, and seismometric observations for 1906, and (2) rainfall observations ...

Until last week Japanese-Dutch negotiations on the Indies were as different from Japanese-French “negotiations” on Indo-China as black and white. The Japanese just walked into Indo-China in ...

Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan van the Batavia Rhythm Club), circulation 800.

The first group of the 200 Dutch refugee families, about half of them Jewish, who will find a haven in the Dutch East Indies under an agreement between the Joint Distribution Committee and the ...

The ‘unlucky voyage’ In 1629 Batavia, a three-masted sailing ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, ran aground on a coral reef in the arid Houtman Abrolhos Islands off western Australia, which ...