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This was not the stringless independence Java's rebel President, Dr. Soekarno, had sought, but it was close enough to be palatable to most Indonesians. However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists...
...Batavia sits the Volksraad, a legislative assembly composed half of natives and subjects of foreign origin and half of Hollanders. But the Volksraad has exceedingly limited powers. Only recently it acquired the right to initiate legislation. The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover...
...Treub, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, delivered a lecture on "The Vegetation of Java" before the Botanic Club, in the University Museum yesterday afternoon...
...Treub, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, will give an illustrated talk on "The Vegetation of Java" at a meeting of the Botanical Club, in Room 12 of the University Museum at 2.30 o'clock today. All men interested in Botany are invited...
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