NO EVACUATION
POLICY OF THE DUTCH
(Rec. 9 a.m.) BATAVIA, February 18. Virtually no civilians have been evacuated from Java. From the 54-year-old Governor-General, Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stacbouwer, and his wife and daughter, down to every workaday citizen, they will stay at their posts and every family will stay in its home. The Dutch attitude is: If we evacuate, the Europeans must also evacuate the Indonesians, of whom there are 47,000,000 in Java. The Dutch, who have a reputation for humanitarianism and efficiency as colonial administrators, feel they cannot let down their native charges in this crisis. The same spirit which xnoved the Government officers to stay at their posts in the outer islands animates the Dutch here.
The Japanese have carried out several pamphlet raids over Macassar, urging the natives to rise against the Dutch and picturing the Japanese as
liberators. The natives gathered up the pamphlets and handed them over to the Dutch authorities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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157NO EVACUATION Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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