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fighting people. They have no fear of native uprisings but are worried over Japan. It is for a Japanese contingency that they are organised into divisions. The army is maintained entirely from colonial revenue.  The commanding general and the commander-in-chief of the navy are called "Excellencies" and stand next to the Governor-General.

28.  My information on the navy is scant and was obtained principally from the American consul.  There are some six light cruisers, gunboats I believe, and four submarines recently arrived from Holland.  These are quite modern and are said to be of fifteen hundred tons.  There are also a number of smaller craft.  There are two floating dry docks said to be capable of accommodating ships up to thirty-five hundred tons displacement.  The submarine force is to be increased.

29.  We returned to Batavia on the morning of January twenty-third.  The country was all of the same character as that described before.  The railway ran through a hill country almost exactly like that in the Philippines before entering the coastal plain.  We lunched with our consul general, Mr. Hoover, who had the Swedish consul general and others.  He reported our trade interests

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