Evening star., 1942-06-06
laps Still Meeting
Armed Resistance
In Netherlands Indies
Two Armies Corry On
Fight Against Occupation
Forces in Juyu

Forces in Jovu
BY Wide World
LONDON, June 6.-Three months
after the capitulation of Bandoeng,
military capital of the Netherlands
East Indies, the Japanese invaders
still have not achieved full consoh-
dation of their conquest of the far
flung archipelago.
That much, at least, is known
from reports Of continued resistance
which have reached Dutch and AL
contradictory reports Of the jap
anese themselves, who will claim at
one moment that they have won
over the native population to full
cooperation, and admit in the next
that they have had to execute ma
tive policemen In Java "for spread
ing false rumors."
Bandoeng fell on March 7.
Today, it has been revealed om-
cially, two good-sized armies with
some Americans among them, work.
ing from long-established, well-pro-
visioned bases and commanded by
two well-known Dutch generals, are
fighting the occupation forces in
Java; widely-scattered Dutch, Brit
ish. Indian and native guerrilla
bands are carrying on the fight in
the jungles of Sumatra, and smaller,
yet effective units are harrassing the
enemy on Borneo and Celebes.
Fragmentary Reports Received.
News of their operations is neces-
sarily scarce, and the sources of
whatever information does get
through necessarily are kept secret.
But from Australia recently has
come word that DR.. Hubertus j.
Van Nook, now Netherlands Co
lonial Minister and former Lieu
tenant Governor General of the In
dies, is in touch with the forces in
Java and Sumatra, and that Dutch
naval officials are receiving frag-
mentary reports from the Indies by
short-wave radio.
From all available reports, the
Free Dutch news agency Aneta has
pieced together this composite pic
ture of the present situation in the
Indies:
Governor General Tjarda van
Starkenborgh Stachouwer has been
confined to a small country villa;
many other officials have been
rounded up and most regular civil
servants have been dismissed. Ger
tain prisoners undoubtedly were
executed, while others were stripped
of their clothing to prevent any
attempted escapes. Heavy penalties
have been announced for any in
reference with the japanese ad-
miniStration.
AL foreign residents were ordered
to register, pay high fee for doing
so, and at the same time pledge
obedience to Japanese rule. Those
who refused were regarded as hos
tile and placed themselves outside
Japanese protection"
In Sumatra, difficult to rule be-
cause of its vast size and poor means
of communication, the apprehensive
Japanese announced that all Dutch
men would be regarded as enemy
aliens and sent to concentration
camps.
Many Technicians Killed.
Though public utilities, railways
and postal services returned to mod
erately normal operation quickly,
the invaders still appear to be hav-
ing difficulty restoring the Dutch
destroyed oil installations, chiefly in
Sumatra and Borneo.
Hopeful at first, they now admit
that large numbers of their tech
nicians have been killed or injured
in attempting to extinguish oil well
fires. and that even with the most
expert repair work. purely tenn
porary restoration of the pumping
apparatus cannot be effected until
July or August.
Normal banking arrangements
were retained for some time. Now
all banks supported by foreign cap
ital have been closed, and in their
place the Japanese have opened
branches of three leading Japanese
banks. In line with their procedure
in the Philippines and in Malaga,
Japanese troops are making pur-
chases with currency which was
printed in Japan and distributed to
the soldiers before the invasion.
Within two weeks of the occupa-
ton, the Japanese announced that
"as one of the first concrete indica-
tions of the vast national resources
available in the Southwest Pacific
area, treasure ships laden with
sugar, rice, raw rubber, iron. coal
and fertilizers have entered a Japa-
nese port, while several thousand
tons of other goods already have
arrived in Japan"
In addition to their difficulties in
attempting to win over the native
population-chief1y with promises
that they will be given better treat
men than Europeans-the Japanese
also are encountering trouble with
the considerable Chinese population.
Give Up on Chinese.
Reports reaching Australia in
dicate, in fact, that they have aban-
doned all efforts to gain the con-
f1dence of the Chinese, number
of whom were reported arrested
recently on charges Of attempting
to raise money for the Kuomintang,
the Chinese Nationalist party.
The Japanese-controlled Batavia
radio broadcasts news of a mounting
number of executions-of Dutchmen
sentenced for listening to foreign
broadcasts and spreading rumors
about hte news received in this way
of natives who fail to cooperate
with Japan's new order" for the
Indies.
Each week since the fall of
Bandoeng, the japanese have claimed
full control over Java, Sumatra.
CelebeS and Borneo Each week thew