Stories from Deli

C’est de Surabaya aujourd’hui, que nous vient la lumière *. (Adapted from Voltaire.)

The Nieuwe Soerabaja Courant, of which the director and now acting editor-in-chief is mr. Dr. Schimmel, refers to the Delischen jubilee date of May 5, 1803. The magazine has * from someone who is the 9th of the first controllers BB has been in that Deli ‘, several details have been heard, which are not correct with the statements from and to the Dali magazines’. The remarks’, which the magazine then communicates), contain so many verifiable factual wrongs that we cannot attach any value to the unverifiable vague accusation against Mr. Nienhuijs. We want to follow here the piece of Soerabajascie historiography, which begins with the mededeeMntf •

Nienhuijs first came to the Indies in 1865 ‘, following: fZskere heer De Munnick was from Java in 1862 or – ’63. There Singapore went for good reasons and made a living there by transporting Native tobacco from the Sumatra coast to Singapore. At the end of 1864 the first inspector was posted to Deli, namely Baron Catz da Raad, and this one, who was very bored, persuaded Mr. De Mann’ck to settle in Deli. // The same influence caused the Sultan of Dsli to rent a nutmeg garden to Mr. De Munnick. At the end of 1861 certain Mr. Freiherr von Macht got lost to Deli, who also rented a nutmeg garden from the Sultan of Deli. r In 1865, Mr. Nienhuijs arrived at Deli. The three gentlemen De Munnick, von Macht and Nienhuijs then associated themselves, and at the suggestion of the latter they decided in 1865 or early 1966 to make an experiment with the planting of tobacco. “The experiment was very successful, so much so that they agreed to look for money in Earopa for this cultaur. It was agreed that Mr. De Munnick would look for money in Rotterdam, which he also succeeded in with Mr. Van den Arend. The Munnick got land from the sultan in Soengal and after that the tobacco company Arendsburg was founded. Mr. Nienhuijs went to Amsterdam and found money with Mr. Janssen, with a concession on a strip of land in Deli and thus the Deli Maatschappij was formed, while Freiherr von Macht stayed behind to manage the running business. r On his return to Indii, Mr. De Munnick and Nienhuijs each went their own way, leaving Macht where and what he was. This aroused great bitterness. So much so that he set up a battery with native artillery and threatened to shoot down the proa with tobacco from Nienhuijs and De Munnick. This threat of violence prompted the sultan to expel his Power from the country. Hjj passed away a few years later. Meanwhile, the planting of tobacco had begun. In 1867 or 1868 Mr. Nienhuijs was accused of the death of 7 coolies. The matter was then not investigated further, but Mr. Nienhuijs was told on behalf of the sultan that he had to leave the country, which also happened. Mr. Nienhuijs never returned to India after that. #Da Mr. v. Der Slugs was temporarily charged with the management of the company. Meanwhile, the Ned. Trading Company in the Deli Mine Business. interested and the latter decided, in consultation with Mr. Janssen, to appoint two administrators in order to avoid repetition of such obstructions in the cultaur. The Ned. Act Me. appointed Mr. Cremer for financial management and banking, which at that time were each lively run by the Deli Maatschappij, while Mr. Janssen den Haunoverschen appointed the engineer Straatman for the culture. This Mr. Straatman was actually the founder of the great Delian tobacco culture. In 1875, at the request of the Deli Maatschappij, an investigation was ordered by the government into what had happened in 67 or 68 under the management of Mr. Nienhuys. This investigation was also initiated by an auditor, but this could not lead to proof that the alleged facts were not committed. “This information may give reason to change the plan and under no circumstances have the museum bear the name assigned to it.” Thus da Soerabajasche Dali historiography. Mr Nienhuys would therefore not have come to the Indies until 1865 and in that year also * before having visited Deli But the well-known cultural maa WK of Gorkom – a witness who will not avenge the N. <S. Ci. – wrote in an article in the lnd. van Nienhuys’ 70th birthday, that he met Jacobus Nienhuys in Rembang on Java in the autumn of … 1860. And Mr. P. van den Arend, in Rotterdam, shared in a memorandum introduced by Prof. PJ Veth in the Magazine for the Geography Society, also that Mr. J. Nienhuys, who worked for his firm as an administrator on a tobacco plantation in Java, on the well-known reports of Aen Arab Abdullah, who in Surabaya stories about eli’s riches, went to Deli in 1863 and arrived there in July [Mr. Nienhuys himself designated May 5 of that year and we kept to that date]. We have deliberately mentioned here a few sources other than Mr Nienhuys himself, whose very extensive communications in the lnd, Mere, and the Sm. Pos (