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Sunday 26 June 2016

Dutch naval sailors protesting in the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 5 June 1916

An item reported that Hugenholtz, social democratic member of the Dutch Second Chamber asked the minister of navy for full details about the complaints of the sailors at Surabaya. Dutch East Indies, what caused the riots, what was done to solve the complaints and what ere the results for the involved men.