Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, a Member of Parliament until his son's act forced him to resign, and his married sister exiled themselves to Java in order to escape the scorn which Namba, Jr., has called down upon the family...
...some places (e. g., Philippines under U. S. rule) energetic measures are destroying the disease; in other places (e. g., Java under Dutch rule) nothing is done either to relieve the sufferers or safeguard the community...
Miss Helen B. Chapin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will give an illustrated lecture on Buddhist Art in India and Java under the auspices of "The Massachusetts Indian-Students' Association" at the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Members of the University are invited to attend...
General Wood, who had been visiting Java on invitation of the Dutch Government, returned to Manila. He declined to comment on the Frear resolution. The Dutch Governor of Java, Fock, will visit the Philippines in March. The object of the mutual visits of the Governors is to exchange knowledge of the art of colonial Government...
...next news was that General Wood, who had returned to Manila from Mindanao before setting out on a visit to Java, had vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature. This bill was to remit penalties for nonpayment of land taxes in 1923. Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen...