Beets 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 Atjehtram
Several of the Atjeh murders were committed against tramway staff. In September 1913 a train conductor was murdered; in June 1915 an overseer of the tram at Pantòn Laboe was attacked by an Acehnese woman; in 1916 the tram clerk Beets and his wife were attacked, Beets dying of his wound and the assailant being sentenced to death. Attacks on soldiers occurred repeatedly at tram halts.
From 1916
In 1916 the smallpox epidemic was brought to a standstill; a redactor of the Deli Courant visited Atjeh and described in ten articles, Atjeh in Vogelvlucht, a country wholly at rest and in flower. In December the Sarekat Atjeh was founded at Koeta Radja under Swart’s patronage. Schouten attempted to bring in T. Radja Sabi; unrest at Linggö in the Meergebied was suppressed and Penghoeloe Möngkör laid low by the population in September. The tram clerk Beets was fatally attacked. On 7 April 1916 Swart was made Adjutant in Extraordinary Service to the Queen.
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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.