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Why they watch Relative Strengths
the East Indies
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Sloping in the Dutch East Indies is one of diplomatic hints, but the stakes involved concerns the are high. IL
security, welfare, and future of 'four empires-Britain. Japan, Holland, and the United Statex.
This trouble In the Pacifte is really side-show of the war in Europe; for it began under the
threat of a possible invasion of 1foland. whose empire includes
the Dutch East Indies,
When that be-
gan to be talked About, Japanese spokesinen-Unt $11 Guvern- ment felula- jumped
in to
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Holland has £300,000,000 in- vested in these islands-four empires are concerned in case their security be threatened.
action in the event of any belligerent Power doing anything to affect the status of the Dutch East Indies.
If that meant anything at all, it meant that Japan was ready to step into the Indles if Heiland became involved in the war in the West.
So it was interpreted by the United States,, and Mr. Cordell Hall. - who looks after America's foreign policy, calls on the nations-meanityg * Japan-to respert the status quo of the Dutch East Indies regardless of what happens to Holland.
That is followed up at the Ha
where - $210,
the Dutch Foreign Minister tells the Japanese Minis- ter that' "the Dutch Government have not sought, nor will seek in future, any country's protection of the Dutch East Indies."
Which is the diplomatic way of saying. "Keep your hands off!"
Of course, the United States is concerned because the Japanese Occupation of the Dutch East Indles would alter the balance of power in the Pacific.
Then for Britain, the Dutch Ensl Indies are near enough to the great naval base of Singapore to war- rant our interest in that direction.
islands, witch The
old-time sallors called "the Indies." pro- duce pearls, spices, rare woods, and many countries depend sub- stantially on them for their sup- piles of Important commodities, such as rubber, tin, quinine, and copra-four products specifically mentioned by Cordell Hult.
The islands, of which Java and Sumatra аге the chief, cover 730,000, must of whom, of course, are the brown-bodied, beautiful people made familiar to us by the tourist agency posters inviting us to "Come to beautiful Bali."
AS long ago as 1091 Dutch ad- the to cluin venturers set out islands, but for a period of eleven years during the Napoleonic wars the islands were temporarily un der British control.
Like British Indin, the Nether lands Indies they are called officially are divided into States under the rule of native princes. but the Dutchman's grip on inter- tighter. nal government is much
native the The overlordship of prinees is stronger; and, in fact, about five-sixths of the pupulation. are ruled from Batavia, capital of the Dutch administration.
Certainly there is a local Parlia- ment called the Volksrand, but the real power rests in the hands of a man who sits in a tropical palace
His Batavia,
Excellency
near
L. Tjurda van Junkheer A. W. Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Govern- or-General of the Netherlands In- dies.
The colonial Dutchmen live well, bul the natives dn not enjoy n higher standard of living than those of British India.
The old Dutch, adventurers did not know what a prize they were bringing to their homeland when they set out to claim the islands. Oil from Borneo and Java,_rub- her from Sumatra, tin from Bang- ka, ten, lobacco, sugar, coffee, and
rice.
TO show what these Islands mean to the Dutch and what a tempting prize they fre to envious nations--please note that Dutch Investments there are valued at about £300,000,000, and about one-sixth of the people of Holland live by their trade with the Netherlands Indles
The figures help to explain why 11 is said that Wilheiminn Queen of the Netherlands is one of the rich- est rulera in the world. She has never visited her rich possessions.
So no wonder eyes are now on the Dutch East Indies and that heavy
hints are dropped by the diplomats.
Round and about the islands are key Pacific possessions of the other nations-Britain's Maloya, Burma, Sarawak, New Guinen and Hong- konu: France's Indo-China; the United States' Philippines, Guam, American Somoa; and Japan's two little passesalons, the Spratly and Mandated Islands.
Four empires are involved, but meanwhile the security of those la- lands must resi—as they have done for years-on the British Navy. The Dutch alone could not hold them in this ambitious world.
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Waxes.
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The Story of
SIX
MURDERS
NEW YORK.
HERE as briefly as possible
I are stories of six murders six out of what may turn out to be thirty or more com- mitted, inspired or instigated by a group of men with the morals and manners of apes.
Each of the members of this group is entitled to call him- self a gangster, a word which
both in and out of the United States has acquired a romantic glow, a connection of daring and adventure.
The six murders which are here selected. as fairly representative examples of Brooklyn underworlti technique, have been recalled and recounted as part of the compll- cated picture drawn by various big and little gangsters now in the care _of_the police,
·Murder No. 1.-Walter Sage had been on the gang's payroll at five dollars a murder and had been little extra allowed to make a money by running a slot-machine racket in an area where the gang controlled all the ruckets. But presently he got to know too much.
He was invited by other mem- bers of the gong to take a ride in a car. At a given spot the car was stopped and Sage, who was in the front scut, was attacked and stabbed to death with on icepick. His body was then chained to a slot-machine which the gang had The brought along in the body and the machine were thrown Into a lake.
ear.
The man alleged to have dono the stabbing has been arrested in Hollywood. He was playing small parts in gangster films.
Murder No. 2-Irving Ashkenas I was given the job of clubbing 10 death with a sawed-off billiard-cue an inoffensive New York dress manufacturer, who had refused to pay the
money which "pronded. the
He was Lang arrested, but the gang so terrorised witnesses that he got away with a few years in gaol on a maugiaugh- ter conviction When he came out of gaol he begon a taxi service with the money he was still regularly receiving from the gang.
Suddenly the gang get tired of paying him. He complained. His bullet-riddled body was found one doy la his own taxi.
Murder Number 3.-Irving Penn, A perfectly respectable music pub- lisher who had never met a gang- ster in his life was shot dead as he his emerged one morning from apartment in New York on his way be to his business. It turned out to all a mistake. The thugs, who had fired the shots from a car, meant to kill another man who was to be a wliness against a gangster whose trial was pending. They mistook Penn for him.
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Murder Number 4. — Solomon Goldstein hod a quarrel in Brooklyn haberdashery store with a fellow employee of the gang named Robert (Boggy) Feuer.
He pulled out his gun and fired sive büllets point-blank into Feuer,
who died in hospital after six months of agony. Shortly after- words Goldstein
married. got While he was on his honeymoon ho received a telephone call from a member of the gang instructing him to attend a meeting. He left his new wife to go to the meeting and has never been seen. since. His body is now believed to be at the bottom of a lake, wrapped in a weighted blanket.
Goldstein and Feuer were both 24 and had been friends since childhood.
Murder Number 5.-A gang- member muned John (Spider) Murtha was strolling along I
with Brooklyn street
his girl, Florence Nestfield, when two men appeared motioned the girl to stand aside and shot him dead." That was in 1935. Not until this week is the girl said to have told the police that the two men were Max (The Jerk) Golob and Frank (The Dusher) Abbadando, whom the police are now seeking to in- diet. Detectives are guarding the girl day and night,
Murder Number 6-Three men. not members of the Brooklyn gang, took a bookmaker named Joseph Curoselli for a ride intending to rob him. They learned during the ride paying protection money to the Brooklyn gang, so they shot him, knowing that if he were allowed to tell the gang he had been robbed they would all be rubbed out.
that
was
What has happened within the last few days is that recently elected District Attorney O'Dwyer is "cleaning up" Brooklyn and has arrested some of the gang leaders. They bear such names-often self chosen as Abc (Kid Twist) Reles, Hurry (Pittsburgh Phili) Strouss, Martin (Buggsby) Goldstein, Harry. (Happy) Malone.
Most of the "singing" (inforin- ing) is being done by Kid Twist Reles. He seems to be an unpleu- sant little bully whom O'Dwyer has adroitly frightened by confronting him with evidence that his col- leagues are double-crossing him. The
revelations have not yet reached the point of showing which politicians were
protecting this Brooklyn gang in its heyday (for you must remember all the time that the police in the United States are under local political control, so that murder is safe or
unsafe in any given locality in accordance with instructions which came do
down from the elected bosses), but the
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