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...bases from which we can operate are becoming more and more restricted. Today Java and Australia are left. Tomorrow Java may be lost," de Haas emphasized. "We are rapidly losing the war. Surprise and treachery have played their part; lack of preparation has contributed its share...
Pounding Japanese assault forces threatened the Allied main Pacific base on Java and the Burma Road to China Thursday...
...threat to Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...
...Netherlands East Indies," will be presented at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 2 Divinity Avenue tomorrow at 8 P.M. The movie, which will be open to the public with no admission charge, will include scenes of native life and scenery in the Dutch East Indies Islands of Java, Sumatra, Niaf, the Celebes, and Bali. Featured also will be Balinese dance music and music by gamelan bands, with a dialogue by Andre Lavarre, and associate of Burton Holmes...
...cages, supple natives bathe in the filthy canals ("They are a very clean people, but they like their water dirty"). An ancient cannon, sacred but now annoyingly useless, stands at Batavia's Amsterdam Gate. The native women pray to it for fertility and have so many babies that Java has 817 people per square mile. According to native superstition, the cannon has a wife at Bantam on the western end of the island. When the two meet, Dutch rule in Java will...