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...office of the N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
...Commander in Chief of the N.E.I. Army, Lieut. General Gerardus J. Berenschot. Hein ter Poorten's beefy, weather-beaten face was impassive, his great 220-lb. body vastly immobile as he heard the message: "Het is Zoover"-This is it. With the economy of movement characteristic of great bodies, he hung up, pushed a button on his desk. N.E.I.'s well-concerted war plans went into action...
...Saito-san reached the Preanger Hotel in the center of the city, he was shocked and surprised to see armed Dutch soldiers hustling German guests and hotel staff members off to concentration camps. The same thing was going on in all the 3,000-odd islands of Hein ter Poorten's domain. At the seaports, soldiers had seized every German ship, while others grabbed their officers and crews ashore and confiscated bombs (intended to blow up their ships) before there was a chance td use them.* Thus Saito-san saw how quickly Ter Poorten could move...
...Indies' stubborn Dutch and their broad-faced, able commander, Lieut. General Hein ter Poorten, the thrust was deadly in its possibilities, as it was to the rest of the Allies. To the U.S. it was also bitterly humiliating. The Jap struck from U.S. territory...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...