The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-11-06
ANOTHER WAR
Imminenca Of a Struggle Detwoen
Holland ard LOmbOk.
An Island in the Eutch East Ind! s That
Is Conte5tinS TIC Supremacy OF
tho Eathcrlaoi-IEistory
OF the Trouble.

| cOnCcQOlng Tor the MISERY are the
fourteen-year-old Queen WilhelTnina OF
Holland and Ealinese Rajah, who
claims sovereignty over the island Of
Lombok, Dutch East Indies.
The contest. writes Thomas Parke
Gordon in Golden Days, is not as un-
equal a one as might at first be sup
posed; for the young queens troops
have met with such serious oversees as
to east d gloom over the whole king
dom.
The queens birthday was to have
been celebrated on a grand scale at
The Hague, August 81, but on account
of the losses sustained by he1 troops at
LOmbok she gave orders to abandon
the usual festivities.
For Over half a century the Dutch
have exercised sovereignty over LON
box, in trying to discipline whose ORR
entail ruler their troops have met with
so disastrous a defeat; but this .sov-
ercignty has been merely nominal, the
real ruler being Balinese Raiah. The
lattcr-a strict Brahmin-has been for
ONE years trying to rid himself entirely
Of the Dutch influence in his country's
affairs, and recently, with this end in
view, he tried to secure the support Of
the British government.
That was about four months ago.
When he found that his efforts were
Intellectual he procured a small hotilla
of naval vessels, and made other war
like preparations.
The Dutch authorities protested
against such proceedings, but the raiah
paid no attention to them. War wa
then declared and three battalions Of
the colonial army were sem against
him, with artillery, and five men-of-
war to support them, to teach the orr
entail potentate a lesson. But 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-ca1led Tanah Sasak by the
natives and Selaprang by the Balinese
lis an island Of the Sunda group, lying
east of Java, with the island Of Bali
intervening. 1t has an area of about
zoos square miles, which is watered'by
numerous small streams, scarcely any
of which are navigable, and dotted over
with many mountain lakes.
There are two mountain ranges, be-
tween which is a Ucll-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 thorny
jungles alternating with the rich a1iu-
vial plains, which are cultivated like
gardens under an ancientand 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-
crs and ground-thrushes. The popula-
ton is about half a million.
There can be but little doubt as to
the outcome of the war. While the
rajah may be able to keep off the
Datch for months and years, sooner or
later Wilhelmina's troops must be vic
tOriOuS.
AT best, the war can only u her
the loss of that one island, although if
oil the other Dutch colonies, ncour |
SoSN " AK ouCSOluC O1 UI1c war III
Lombok, should link hands and revolt,
their independence would probably re-
suit.
1t is interesting tc call attention to
che colonies of Holland. This little
European kingdom, with an area Of
but l2,64S square miles and a popula-
ton OF 1860, 576-which is about the
area of Delaware and Maryland to- |
gether, and half a million less than the |
population of the state of PENNSYLVANIA
rules a colonial territory of 766,137
square miles, with a population Of ga |
900, 900.
The colonial possessions fall natural
ly into two groups-the East Indian
possessions including Java, Madura, |
Bali, LOmbOl, Sumatra, the M~olluccas,
Ceiebes, 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, 1880, and
succeeded to the throne on the death
Of her father, King William III, on
November %, 1880.
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 a very large |
>c2lo. Next winter the young queen
Is to E"2rc on q new issue of coins and
stamps. with her hair done up in q
WD2lunly fashion.
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