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...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...
Fifteen hundred living plants were received from institutions in England, Sumatra, Hawalii, Canada, and the United States, while the Arboretum sent many plants and seeds to various parts of the world, including Great Britain, Australia, and Hungary...
More crucial for the N.E.I.'s allies, the Jap would control one of the world's most important seaways. From Java and Sumatra his raiders could range into the Indian Ocean, slash at supplies bound for Suez and India...
...boarded a British destroyer, which slipped by blockading Japanese warships and steamed into Manila Bay through strange mine fields which sank an intercoastal steamer. From Manila he hurried to Dutch Borneo, then to Singapore. From Singapore he got to Médan on Dutch Sumatra, took the last commercial plane to Rangoon. On Dec. 28 the Japanese made their parachute attack...
Bowditch's last voyage took him to Sumatra to buy pepper. This time he was part owner of his ship. One Christmas, in a driving snow storm, he sailed into Salem blind, except for a glimpse of the land at the mouth of the harbor. Then he sold the ship, never went to sea again. His feat became a New England legend. Actually it showed that he knew more about navigation than any other man of his time...