Word: batavia
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Francis Parkman fellowship to Pitt S. Willand 1G, of Batavia...
...dikes. Typical is husky, eagle-nosed Emile Constant Zimmerman, who after 20 years in The Netherlands East Indies, went to Manhattan five years ago as Netherlands Indies Trade Commissioner. With Holland's flight, control of the Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able to give U. S. business a good, if sketchy, idea of readjustments in the empire while he drank coffee from office Gouda china in Manhattan's new Holland House...
...headquarters of most Dutch businesses are in Batavia on the Java...
...moved four of Holland's largest banks (Javasche Bank. Neder-landsche Handel Mij., Nederlandsche In-dische Escompto Mij. and Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank). There also have moved the headquarters of the two larg est steamship companies (Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Nederland) in the Indies trade. In London, Manhattan and Batavia, operators of the Dutch fleet of 1,500 merchantmen have already set up joint offices and Dutch shipping is doing business as usual, except that Holland ports have been dropped from call, except that in war zones its ships join Allied convoys. Up to the time Germany invaded...
...Java the People's Council ordered watch kept on the activities of two Nazi newspapers in Batavia, and in Semarang a committee of "action against internal enemies" began military training. Of the 32,000 foreigners in The Netherlands East Indies, 7,300 are Germans, 7,200 Japanese...