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ONZE TOEKOMST The Holland-American Weekly "OUR FUTURE" $1 50 Per Year , , PERPETUATE THE HONOR AND GLORY OF OUR RACE "'t GEHEIM VAT' ZEGEN, IS IN GODS VREES GELEGEN" — t >A Volume 49 CHICAGO, ILL.. March 25. 1942 Number 12 STORIES OF ESCAPE JAP ESPIONAGE JOURNEY BY NIGHT ROYAL CARPET BATTLE OF JAVA SEA By Hollanders In East Indies Gen. MacArthur’s Trip Brings $2,400 at Auction An Eyewitness Account Two thrilling escape stories are London — Vrij Nederland, Free Like the story of his soldiers' stand Valuable furniture, tapestries and How two Netherlands cruisers coming from Dutch sources in Lon- Netherland newspaper published in in the foxholes of Bataan and at the furnishings including a palace carpet went down righting, after an Allied don—one is the account of a Neth- London, told this story in an article batteries of Corregidor, the tale of used at a court held by Queen Vic- naval squadron had inflicted heavy erlander rescued from Vaasgo, in describing Japanese espionage in the MacArthur's trip from the isolated toria, were sold at auction last week losses on the enemy fleet, was re- Norway, by British Commandos; the Netherlands East Indies: Philippines across 2,100 miles of Jap- in New York. vealed in Bandung on March 1 in other tells of two young Hollanders After a Japanese planter had been anese-dominated islands and water- The Aubusson palace carpet, which an authoratative account of the Bat- who eluded capture by the Gestapo granted concessions near Singapore ways fired the imagination. On a was purchased by a private collector tle of the Java Sea, which lasted in three occupied countries and fi- to establish a rubber plantation, a dark night a party composed of the for $2,400, bears the arms of Buck- from the afternoon of Friday, Feb. nally succeeded in reaching Eng- Netherlands inspector discovered general, his wife, his 4-year-old son, ingham and Chandos, and was speci- 27, through the night and into the land. that no trees had been planted and clinging to a lop-eared doll rabbit, ally woven as a wedding gift from early morning hours Of Saturday. The hero of the first story is a that the settler concentrated on and a small group of officers went George 111 to the Duke of Bucking- On Friday reconnaissance reports twenty-two year old native of Rot- sketching and sounding the island down to a Bataan beach and boarded ham and Chandos. It was used in a told of an enemy transport fleet with terdam who for nearly two years approaches. The concession was motor torpedo boats. The fast little ceremony at Stowe attended by a main force of forty ships steam- had unsuccessfully attempted to es- withdrawn and later it was learned craft slipped quietly out to sea, Queen Victoria. It is 28 feet 10 ing-toward eastern Java. In the vi- cape. the "planter" was an officer of the opened up their throttles and tore inches by 16 feet 6 inches. cinity of this transport fleet enemy "With sixty other Rotterdammers," Japanese battleship Ko^.go. southward, relying on speed for pro- naval forces were observed steam- he said, "I was sent to Dessau to tection against submarines. At dawn BIBLES SENT FAR AFIELD ing more to the south, covered by in building a power plant. We WIRELESS OPERATOR they stopped, hid in jungle inlets a powerful Japanese fleet. assist Great Quantities to Russia the only way from the eyes of hostile planes. With The enemy fleet included heavy soon discovered that In Tight Spot to escape would be to join a Ger- darkness they proceeded again, to a In outlining the work of sending cruisers armed with eight-inch guns. man'ship and desert it at a neutral In the turmoil of war tales of re- rendezvous- with Army bombers Bibles to various countries, Rev. The Allied naval forces operating port. This we did, but we were markable cool-headedness are mak- among the tropical islands. They Canon L. A. Dixon, chairman of the in the eastern part of the Java Sea caught and sent back to Germany. ing the rounds, encouraging men in reached the appointed spot, waited Foreign Mission Conference of North were instructed to attack the enemy Here we were jailed in the city of the heat of battle. Here is a partic- three days until the air transport America, pointed out that the three so as to cause him the greatest pos- Bremen. The prison was so crowd- ularly striking story of coolness and came and took off for the Australian great Bible societies of the world— sible damage and try to delay any ed that five men were forced to live single-mindedness in trying circum- mainland. — N. Y. Times. the British and Foreign Society with landing attempts. The Allied war- in a cell built for two. The food was stances. headquarters in London; the Nether- ships, therefore, engaged the enemy wretched; the only meat or fat we A wireless operator aboard an A. WILHELMINA COIN lands Bible Society from Holland, fleet in battle although it was ap- given East preciably stronger. During the late ever got was a small piece us R. P. observation ship off the coast Taunts Nazis now at work in the Dutch on Sundays. of an island in the Netherlands East Indies, and the American Bible afternoon a heavy artillery duel de-' veloped which "Finally I was released from jail Indies Archipelago was flashing the The use of the name and image of Society, New York, work together started when both apart. De- on condition that I once more signed news of an attack on his ship to Queen Wilhelmina has been under in peace or wartime. "But under fleets were eleven miles stroyers also came into action on on a German ship. I was put aboard Headquarters. The vessel was bomb- a German ban in The Nether- war conditions the American Society drastic launching a requisitioned Dutch vessel which ed and machine-gunned by Japanese lands, but employes of the Nether- has had to assume added responsi- both sides, their attacks the battle went At Khad ,t>één given! ai German ' name 'and planes and finally an enemy seaplane lands Mint found a way to defy the bilities." while on. this * Dixon of advancement stage one Allied cruiser received jf.we left from Hamburg tö Tróndheinv landed /on theIwater ; near the ship ban. A foreman of the mint struck Canon told — a '.' made in the of the some damage, which although of hwith i supplies. :>„ •; and.put out'a rubber, boat 4n which a 'considerable .number of 25-cent establishment %sss£&&*■■<% —obliged war- » we* stepped *a t t Vaasgo. rlimbed,''. obviously printing of the Scriptures Chinese temporary nature the several&soldiers» coins- 1 bearing "the ; likeness of the in. > '. - ship fighting One ;,That night-" the British attacked." with the' purpose of' seizing the on the obverse with the in- last summer, in connection with to leave the line. Queen was There.was a great roar of airplanes' Dutch ship. scription, "Wilhelmina Queen of the which plates were sent from New of the Netherlands destroyers — enemy over the harbor and this attracted All crew members of the observa- Netherlands" around the border, and York by plane to Chengu. In addi- hit by artillery fire from the so much attention that the Germans tion vessel jumped overboard except on the reverse the legend "25 cents, tion twelve tons of Scriptures were ships. result bombardment did not notice how a British destroy- the wireless operator who stuck to 1941" within a wreath of laurels. smuggled across the Japanese lines As a of this of the er crept into port with Commandos his key, continuing to tap out bulle- These "kwartjes" (quarters) were into Free China, and five tons sent two Japanese cruisers, one until all its guns began blazing away tins on the approach of the Japanese distributed widely before the Ger- by truck up the Burma road. An- Mogami class and another armed guns, at German objectives. boat. When the enemy had almost mans discovered the trick. The fore- other ton was sent by air, by the with eight-inch sustained con- heavy "The German skippers ordered all reached the ship a Dutch fighter man was thrown into a concentration Bible Society over Japanese lines. siderable damage. Another cruiser was sunk. At least ships beached, but there was pan- plane appeared on the scene and camp and an intensive hunt was From a special depot in Switzerland enemy enemy destroyers, it was ob- demonium every where. Nobody took machine-gunned the rubber boat made for the coins. The coins, how- the society has supplied Scriptures three served," were left a any notice of me, so I packed my which turned tail, fleeing back to the ever, were carefully hidden by the printed in eighteen languages to behind in burn- ing or sinking condition while the bag, boarded a tiny empty boat and seaplane. The wireless operator was Hollanders and few were discovered. prison camps in Germany. They are enemy fleet steamed off at high bobbed up and down until I got to rescued by his fellow countrymen. One of these coins made its way also being supplied to prisoners of speed. the coast where the British Com- Unfortunately this story has an to the New York branch of the war in Egypt, India, South Africa During the ensuing night action mandos were shooting up the Ger- unhappy epilogue. The operator was Netherlands Information Bureau and and Canada. —of a wholly different character mans.