The Durham daily globe., 1894-11-01
ANOTHER ORIENTAL WAR
Imminence Of a Struggle Between
Holland and LOmbOk.
An Island in the Dutch East Indi That
Is COntesting the Supremacy OF
the Fatherland-IlistOry
of the Trouble.

Japan the orient is the scene of an
other war. The sovereigns who are
contending for the mastery are the
! fouTteen-year-old Queen Wilhclmina Oh
Holland and Balinese Rajah, who
claims sovereignty over the island OF
Lombok, Dutch East Indies
The contest, writes Thomas ParlIe
! Gordon in Golden Days, is not as un-
| equal one as might at first bc sup
| posed; for the young queens troops
| have met with such seriOu1 rcvcrscs as
| to cast a gloom over the whole king
dom.
The queens birthday Was to have
| been celebrated on :; graz 4 >.-l4 at
The Hague, August 81, but IN account
Of the losses sustained by her troops at
LOmbOk she gave orders to aba ndOn
the usual festivities.
For over half century the Dutch
have exercised sovereignty over I.c.n-
box, in trying to discipline who's. ori-
entail ruler their troops have met With
SO disastrous a defeat; but this w
ereignty has been merely nominal, tae
real ruler being Balinc3e Rajah. ThH
latter-a strict Brahmin-haS been for
some years trying to rid himself entirely
of the Dutch influence in his countrv'>
affairs, and recently, with this end in
view, he tried to secure the support o.
the British government.
That was about four months aCp
When he found that his efforts were
Intellectual he procured q small flOtilla
Of naval vessels, and made other war
like preparations.
The Dutch authorities protested
against such proceedings. but the raiah
paid no attention to thnr1. War was
then declared and three E"ttuliCrs OF
the colonial army were sent "rainrt
him, with artillery. and Eve r.lcn-of-
war to support them, to teach the ori-
entail pOtentate lesson. E:ut the
Dutch, instead of teaching him a lesson,
met with Overwhelming defeat, as has
been recorded in the cable dispatches
which have been received at this writ
ing There had been bloody battles,
before in the East Indies, but never
have Europeans been SO badly beaten
Lombok- called Tanah Sasal1 by the
natives and Selaprang by the Balinese
is an island of the Sunda group, living
east of Java, with the island of Bali
intervening. It has an area of about
zoos square miles, which is watered.bv
numerous small streams scarcely any
of which are naviga able, and dotted over
with many mountain lakes.
There are two mountain ranges, be-
tween which is a well-watered plain,
wholly planted with rice, the hillsides
producing coffee and Indian corn. The
scenery throughout the island is beau
tiful-fOrest-clad mountains and thornv
Jungles alternating with the rich a1lu-
vial plains, which are cultivated like
gardens under an ancient and elaborate
system of irrigation.
To the naturalist, Lombok is of pc
culiar interest as the frontier island of
the Australian regions, with it's cocka-
toOS and mOund-builders and bee-eat-
ers and grOund-thrushes. The popula-
ton is about half Million
There can be but little doubt as to
the outcome of the war. While the
rajah may be able to keep off the
Dutch for months and years, sooner or
later Nilhelmina's troops must be vic
tOriOus.
At best, the war can only cause her
the loss of that one island, although if
all the other Dutch colonies, encOur-
aged by the outcome Of the war in
LombOk, should link hands and revolt
their independence would probably re-
suit.
1t IS interesting tc call attention to
the colonies of Holland. This little
European kingdom, with an area of
but l2,64S square miles and a popula-
ton of 1860, ,57G-which is about the
area of Delaware and MARYLAND to-
gether, and half a million less than the
of the state of PENNSYLVANIA
rules a colonial territory of 7G6,137
square miles, with population Of 3d.
900, 900.
The colonial possessions fall natural
Is into two groups-thc East Indian
possessions including Java. Madura,
Bah, LombOll, Sumatra, the MOlluccas.
Celebes, TimOr, parts of Borneo, and
the western part of New Cumberland
the West Indies, the chief of which are
Dutch Guinea and Curacao. Holland
once had considerable territory on the
coast of Guinea, but this was disposed
OF by sales to Great Britain in 1872.
Queen Wilhelmina. whose birthday
festivities were abandoned on account
of the Dutch reverses in the East In
dies. was born August 81, 1850. and
succeeded to the throne on the death
Of her father, King William Ill. or
November %, 1890.
She is now a fine, tall girl OF four
teen Her birthday festivities last
year, by her special desire took the
form of school treats on very large !
scale, Next winter the Young queen !
IS 70 figure on new issue of coins and J
stamps, with her hair done up in a
fashion.
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