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Updated: May 27, 2025

In fact, one of the first things to attract my attention in Java was the great variety of American articles on sale and in use motor cars, tires, typewriters, office supplies, cameras, phonographs, agricultural machinery of all descriptions. More than a tenth of Surabaya's population is Chinese and their commercial influence dominates the whole city.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China