Author: BOSHART, MAUD,
Title: Muiterij in de Tropen. De eensgezinde strijd van blank en bruin op de Zeven Provinciën. [Covertitle]. Tweede druk [Second edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Brochurehandel C.P.N. ()De Waarheid), 1949. Small 8°., original wrappers, stapled. Bold type covertitle. 47pp. Full page monochrome portrait of Maud Boshart, full page captioned monochrome plate of the dutch cruiser De Zeven Provinciën. Dutch language survey, a political brochure, in which the events of the so-called Mutiny aboard the Dutch Cruiser De Zeven Provinciën], is narrated and analyzed after data supplied by an eye-witness Royal Navy Corporal Engineer Maud Boshart. The cruiser was moored at Surabaya Naval Base, Dutch East Indies, when a rebellion amongst european and indigenous personnell broke-out, triggered by previously announced cuts in wages came into effect. Naval authorities became anxious and it was decided to drop a bomb as a warning at front of the cruiser. Unfortunately the bomb hit the forecastle killing and sounding some crew. This unfortunate action caused a lot of political troble and discussion in dutch Parliament and in the streets of Holland. Published by the Dutch Communist Party, C.P.N. Good copy. (copy with a minimal vertical crack, not disturbing however).

Keywords: royal dutch navy mutiny zevenprovinciën politics agitprop communism soerabaia surabaya navalbase history colonialism indonesia southeastasia survey