V Moekims Mon Tasië’ is a subject named in *General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by [[Maurice Henri du Croo|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 Pang Bintang
“…you will surely already have heard that Pang Bintang and his little troop are no more. His capture was such a stroke of luck as I have seldom seen. At last, after the transfer of controleur Roos van Raadshoven, there was to be patrolling in the XXII Moekims as well. Van Andel, since posted at Lam Meulò, got the first patrol and was to begin scouring about with one brigade in the V Moekims Mon Tasië’ and the adjoining hills.”
From XXII Moekims
It was in this sagi that van Heutsz attacked the positions of Panglima Pòlém and drove him to Pidië. In July 1913 Pang Bintang was killed there by chance, when Van Andel of Lam Meulò got the first patrol into the V Moekims Mon Tasië’ after the transfer of controleur Roos van Raadshoven and ran into the band’s hiding-place near the former Koeta Ba’ Teuë on the second day.
From The resistance in Atjeh 1913–1918
In July, and in the entirely quiet, directly administered territory of Groot-Atjeh, Pang Bintang fell. Overste Scheepens, then Civil and Military Authority at Sigli, described the chance of it in one of his last letters to Schmidt before his death in October: after the transfer of controleur Roos van Raadshoven there was at last to be patrolling in the XXII Moekims; Van Andel, since posted at Lam Meulò, got the first patrol and began to poke about in the V Moekims Mon Tasië’ and the adjacent hills. “Unfamiliar with the terrain and without the slightest information, he ran on the very second day, near the former Koeta Ba’ Teuë, straight into the band’s hiding-place. Astonishment was great on both sides, but with it Pang Bintang and his men were despatched into eternity. The hiding-place lay only three-quarters of an hour from the gampong Aneu’ Ngóm and was even connected with it by a well-trodden path. A few friends will be punished, but unfortunately the greatest thieves go free…”
See Also
- Pang Bintang
- XXII Moekims
- The resistance in Atjeh 1913–1918
- moekim
- H. N. A. Swart
- General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943)
- Atjeh
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.