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Because TIME arrives six weeks late it is of interest only because it is "curt, clear, complete" and accurate. For these virtues TIME is of value, also on constant test. Our latest test: TIME'S account of De Zeven Provincien, runaway Netherland India battleship, Feb. 20. We were satisfied. The account was TIMEly...
Speeding at 25 knots, two Dutch destroyers and the modern cruiser Java strained to overtake the De Zeven Provincien, though her 12-inch guns could easily pierce their light armor. "We do not intend violence." plaintively radioed the native mutineers in a message addressed to the World Press. "Our object is protest. No one on board has been harmed...
...prepared," shouted an Opposition Deputy, "to sacrifice the lives of the junior officers on board the De Zeven Provincien...
Obeying Defense Minister Deckers' orders, Vice Admiral Osten instructed the pursuing Java & destroyers which had been joined by two Dutch submarines to seize the De Zeven Provincien at any cost. Just at dawn seaplanes with bombs in their bellies were hoisted off the Java's decks...
...Amsterdam solemn Social Democrats filed protests against the Government's "murder" of Dutch sailors. More frivolous, the Independent Socialists staged an aquatic pageant of ridicule, sent through Amsterdam's canals a small boat placarded DE ZEVEN PROVINCIEN on which stood a wag disguised as the Premier, another holding a Bible & oil can and a third tricked out as a Royal Dutch Co. (petroleum) official. Shocked by such sights, dignified Dutch policemen promptly arrested the fun-making crew as soon as they could persuade them to come ashore. Firmly at Helder, Dutch Naval Base in Northern Holland, officers mounted...