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...dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
...would hope to be well supplied with fuel for the major drive-on Java, then on Sumatra, and finally, from both north and south, on Singapore. Netherlands Sumatra and Java would be the first really tough nuts to crack. The naval and air base at Surabaya is sheltered by Madura Island, and both approaches are mined. The Netherlands East Indies Squadron consists of close to 100 surface craft, and although the waters are so clear that submarines might as well be in fishbowls except at night, there are over 18 modern submarines based on Surabaya. If the Japanese should attempt...
...worth in gold, while the guilder is still at full, sane value. Should Dutchmen Dance? Cold figures reveal that in 1928 England supplied 29% of all textiles bought by Queen Wilhelmina's dusky Indonesian subjects in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Soemba, Bali, Flores, Timor, Banka, Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken Islands, with Japan and The Netherlands tied for second place at 26%. Since then Japan has seized the lion's share of 76%, while England and The Netherlands have been reduced to a mere 7% each. Lumping all Indonesia's imports together...
...years ago I was working in Madura urging some of my countrymen to clothe themselves in khadder [native homespun]. But these people, who were sympathetic, all replied: 'We are too poor to buy khadder; it is too dear.' Then for the first time I seemed to see the difference between them...
...last decade Professor Geddes has spent in India and Palestine. He surveyed 50 different cities of India, from Bombay to Calcutta and from Amritsar to Madura, producing comprehensive reports and plans for every department of urban life from sewage and traffic regulation to education. He is an able architect and engineer and has drawn plans for Tagore's new schools in Bengal, for a zoo at Lucknow and a university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans...