Soerabaijasch Handelsblad

[2] Newspapers in Surabaya date to 1836, when the Dutch-language Soerabaijasch Advertentieblad was published.[3] Soerabaijasch Handelsblad was established in 1853, under the name De Oostpost ("The Eastern Post"); it was the second newspaper published in Surabaya.[6] The name was changed in 1865 to Soerabaijasch Handelsblad, which remained in use until the newspaper was shut down in 1942, following the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.[7] The Soerabaijasch Handelsblad was reestablished in 1945 as the Nieuwe Courant ("New Courant"); through 1946 it was billed as the official newspaper of the Allied Military Administration-Civil Affairs Branch,[8][9] a semi-military organization tasked with restoring Dutch colonial administration and law in the recently proclaimed Republic of Indonesia, which claimed most of the Indies.[12] The Dutch newspaper archive Delpher.nl provides access to scans of the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad from two periods, 1865–1908 and 1929–1942.
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