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Sir,
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BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL,
BATAVIA.
April 28th., 1927.
A responsible Dutch official here recently lent
me a list of names, supplied by the Netherlands Consulate at
Canton, of various persons who are alleged to compose the
organisation set up under the auspices of the Third
International for the purpose of fomenting revolution in the
Netherlands East Indies. I took the opportunity to make
a copy of this document, which I have the honour to transmit
to you herewith.
it.
2.
My informant told me that the list was procured
just as it is by the Dutch authority originally forwarding
He said that no explanations in regard to it were
forthcoming, and he evidently did not know anything further
concerning its purpose or history. Assuming that the
document is genuine, it indicates the existence of
committees and of a military department both at Canton and
at various centres in Java. There is also a "technical
department" for the manufacture of rifles, ammunition and
bombs, whilst representatives ("wahila" or "wakila") have
been appointed in various other countries (in Holland, in
London, Paris and Berlin, in Afghanistan, at Angora and in
America). Further, there is a committee for foreign affairs
at Shanghai, headed by Kwee Hing Tjist, a Chinese journalist
born in the Netherlands East Indies whose return to this
country has been forbidden on account of his violent
The Right Honourable,
Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., P.C., M.P.,
ato.,
etc.,
etc. Foreign Office,
LONDON, .#.1.
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