J. Ph. Andriesse 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 Lho’ Soekon

In 1917 a leper at Lho’ Soekon murdered the officier van gezondheid dr. J. Ph. Andriesse during examination; the perpetrator was sentenced to death. In June 1915 the officier van gezondheid De Vos was lightly wounded at Lho’ Soekon during vaccination, the perpetrator being killed by bystanders. On 11 March 1918 the Civil Authority, lieutenant Schouten, was attacked there; he soon recovered and the perpetrator was laid low.

From 1917

In 1917 Tgk. di Mata Ië, last of the three great resistance leaders of the north coast, was killed near Samarkilang on 10 July; a leper murdered the officier van gezondheid dr. J. Ph. Andriesse at Lho’ Soekon; at Langsa an Acehnese killed Jahnke in a fit of religious mania. In December a religious movement at Serbödjadi under Penghoeloe Koeala cost the gezaghebber of Lököp his life, and on 29 December lieutenant G. F. P. Gosenson was gravely wounded at Djeuram in an attack organised by Tgk. Poeti’. “More and more the population is applying itself to the planting of rubber”, the Koloniaal Verslag recorded.

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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.