Netherlands East Indies
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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His father was in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, serving in Indonesia, when it was overrun by the Japanese.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2019
Growing restive and with Europe at war, Mr. Schorr took a job with Aneta, the news agency of the Netherlands East Indies.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010
They were inclined to believe The Netherlands East Indies threat that, if necessary, every oil well, pipeline and refinery would be blown sky-high before the Japanese could get at them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taking their places were hundreds of Germans who had fled from the Philippines and The Netherlands East Indies, and who did not get on well with Shanghai's poverty-stricken colony of 18,000 anti-Nazi refugees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some harbours in the Netherlands East Indies were free ports between 1829 and 1899; but these privileges were withdrawn by laws passed in 1898-1899, in order to establish uniformity of customs administration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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