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...government promptly called on Aziz to report in person to Jakarta (formerly Batavia), the Indonesian capital. When he refused to budge, he was labeled a rebel. Government army units began to mobilize along the north Java coast, despite the fact that they had no ships other than Dutch to transport them to Macassar...
...other side of the world, from Jakarta (the new Indonesian name for Batavia) TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle cabled...
Back to Business. Next day, Batavia got back to business and the new government began to take over the scores of administrative departments which serve the 3,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago. For the time being, only the top jobs would shift to Indonesian hands. The head of the government's biggest bureau, the 1,500-man Ministry of Economics, introduced the Dutch staff to its new Indonesian boss and told the Dutchmen: "Now, you must try to be officials without being officials...
...touch briefly on William Morgan, and his attempted "exposure" of Masonic secrets ... In the old Batavia cemetery . . . stands a tall shaft surmounted by the figure of a man. This monument was erected in 1880 by the National Christian Association, a group opposed to all forms of secret societies. An inscription at the base of the monument states that it was erected to William Morgan "by volunteer contributions from over 2,000 persons residing in Canada, Ontario, and 26 of the United States and territories ... He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826 by Free Masons and murdered...
CHARLES E. BIRMINGHAM Batavia...