Stories from Deli

Of the Chinese emigrants who move abroad from southern China, only a small number come to Deli, and recently the desire to come here appears to be on the wane, with the result that the desired Chinese labor force became scarce and expensive. I think I can provide an easy and free means by which…

Sin Po 30 Maart 1921 Pengoeboeran Majoor Tjong A Fie. Pada djam sembilan di hari Senen jang laloe di sakiter roemanja soeda penoe dengen orang. Soeara tangisnja prempoesan-prempoean di-iring dengen lagoe muziek jang sedi. Pada djam sepoeloe peti mait jang besar sekali dikaloearken. Sebelonnja terdjadi itoe ter lebi doeloe 700 lian di bawa kaloear, Serombongan…

Mr G. Lodder† Former manager of the “Ajer Bersih” and Medan’s first alderman for Technical and Ground Affairs in Holland passed away. Today a message was received here in the Netherlands that Mr G. Lodder, commissioner of the NV Waterleiding Maatschappij “Ajer Beresih” passed away on the 12th of this year. . Mr. Lodder, who…

AN EXPEDITION IN OLD DELI. From Riou to the under. Arendsburg.These days the military commander of Medan received a booklet consisting of a few issues of the: Nieuw Militair Tijdschrift, which included a series of articles by P., entitled: Notes and memories of the Dcli Expedition in 1872, At this old work was a note…

Medan, September 14, 1916. The Major’s Feast. Lack of space forced us yesterday to break off the report of the celebrations in honor of Major Tjong A Fie after mentioning the speech of the jubilee himself. Then the bear Tjong A Fie requested reading of the statement of the controller of Laboean Deli dd. September…

Today we received the obituary of the major of the Chinese in Medan, who was renowned throughout the Indies, who had just these days enjoyed the dubious honor of having been given the baptismal certificate by MP Hermans with regard to the ribbon, to him as a royal award for his various social workers. work…

Omega, writes to us:In the “Sumatra Post” of January 31 there is an announcement from me of the “Haagsch Maandblad”, the so-called green monthly magazine, which appears to be very successful. I have already mentioned the memoirs of Mr. J. T. Cremer, brought to paper by interview, which are also continued in the latest issue…

De Sumatra Post NV Bookstore and printer , Varekamp & Co., Medan. 1898-1923. On the 1st January 1924 the daily newspaper ‘De Sumatra Post’ in Medan commemorated its 25th anniversary, and although the bookshop to which the publication of the magazine was connected, founded by Mr J. Hallermann, and now known as Boekhandel en Drukerij vrhn…

Wang Jinming, male, a returned Indonesian overseas Chinese, is 68 years old. He once worked at Ninghua Quanshang Overseas Chinese Farm. He is one of 41 young Indonesian heroes. My ancestral home is in Yongchun, Fujian. But he was born in Duanbuganbu, Subei Province, Indonesia. His parents are small businessmen. Although there are 12 sons and daughters…

1, According to Nanpu Xie’s Baoshutang genealogy, the Xie’s ancestors opened the base of Nanpu Village on Dongshan Island from Xinghua Mansion (now Putian City) in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Xie Liantang was the 14th ancestor. Nanpu Xie’s Hall is Baoshu Hall, and the ancestral hall has a couplet “Xinghua lives in a…