The Atjeh Handel Maatschappij (Atjeh Trading Company) was a Dutch trading company established on the North Coast of Atjeh, whose offices (kantoren) stood in 1913 at Loh Semaweu — the former fortified post of the war, which lay then entirely open: zonder eenige versterking of afsluiting en zonder garnizoen (without any fortification or enclosure and without garrison), with a large passar (market) and shopping quarter, the workshops of the Atjeh-tram with many dwellings for those employed in them, the offices of the Atjeh Handel Maatschappij, and a simple hotel. The traveller W. Moens, who recorded the scene in November 1913 during his journey through Atjeh, saw in the buildings of the trading company one of the tokens that a true vredes-werk (peace-work) was under hand in Atjeh: where the army had kept the imprisoned line, commerce and industry now occupied the ground.
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Reisindrukken van Atjeh, door W. Moens, oud-luitenant ter zee (Amsterdam: Jacob van Campen, 1914), p. 15. OCR-filename: 20260716_140310_DLP-99-Reisindrukken_van_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.