Sumatra Post is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From H. N. A. Swart
The Nieuwe Courant chronicler of Atjeh affairs — reprinted in the Sumatra Post of 25 November 1912 — read the promotion to lieutenant-general as “the confirmation of a policy which from its beginning meant a true revolution, a reversal of ideas concerning our administrative task in the north of Sumatra.”
From Hendrikus Colijn
Colijn, “the future adviser for the Outer Provinces,” visited Atjeh again shortly before March 1914, by then already a former minister; his judgement of the situation then agreed entirely with Swart’s own, as expressed in the Sumatra Post interview, and with that of the minister of Colonies who had proposed replacing the military authority in Atjeh wholly by the civil.
From Pidië
In the interview Swart gave to the Sumatra Post on 6 and 7 March 1914 he reported that in “the Pedir country, once the focal point of resistance (180,000 inhabitants)” there were still ten ill-disposed men wandering about with two rifles — for whom, however, all twelve brigades of a division of marechaussée plus twelve brigades of infantry, some five hundred men in all, were searching, partly to reassure public opinion, “otherwise it would merely be said that Atjeh is being stripped of troops.”
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Source
Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.