() After listening to the opinions of both parties, Liu Fu told everyone about the international environment at that time and analyzed the pros and cons of the two handling methods.
The first is the sanctions faction. Liu Fu thinks that their method can be considered in a period when the national environment is relatively peaceful. After all, all countries in the world are idle, and you cannot use too drastic means to stimulate the hearts of various countries, but this method
It is not suitable for the current South China Sea Federation, because the South China Sea Federation was established in a short period of time, its international status is not high, and diplomatic means may not achieve much results.
However, the views of the crusade faction are also a bit too direct. Most of the locals who are anti-Chinese are ordinary people. You can't rush to Java Island and kill all the locals there. Therefore, just sending troops is not feasible.
Finally, Liu Fu revealed his plan, which was to use diplomatic means to put pressure on the Dutch government, and announced that he would send two investigation teams to Java and Kalimantan to investigate the incident.
On January 30, 1917, the South China Sea Federation government officially notified the Dutch government, requesting the other party to quell the anti-Chinese behavior in the Dutch East Indies as soon as possible, and to allow the federal investigation team to enter areas with anti-Chinese behavior to conduct on-site investigations in order to provide follow-up compensation.
To judge the issue, the federal government requested that those locals who were burned and killed be extradited to the South China Sea Federation for trial, and asked the Dutch government to make a public statement to ensure that similar incidents would not happen again in the future.
Since the Netherlands has no diplomatic mission in the South China Sea Federation, this notice was sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hainan Federation to Batavia and handed over to the Dutch Governor there. At the end of this notice, there is a deadline. The South China Sea Federation zheng fu
The Dutch government must reply within 72 hours after receiving the notice, otherwise, the South China Sea Federation will regard the Dutch government as rejecting the conditions proposed by the federation.
Although the Dutch did not have the strength of the sea coachmen back then, their momentum did not diminish at all. In less than 48 hours, the then Governor of the Netherlands East Indies read out the Dutch government's announcement in front of diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the South China Sea Federation.
The telegram came, and the general meaning of the telegram is that the Dutch government refuses to acknowledge all accusations made by the South China Sea Federation, let alone agree to various demands made by the South China Sea Federation, and its attitude is very tough.
After the diplomats of the South China Sea Federation returned to the South China Sea Federation with this telegram, Liu Fu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had no intention of asking the Dutch to agree to his conditions, because these conditions were too harsh.
It is impossible for the pirate countries that have traveled around the world to agree to such conditions. On the contrary, these conditions have been proposed to others before.
On the day the telegram was received, two fleets prepared by the South China Sea Federation set out from Manila and Cam Ranh Bay respectively, heading south. These two fleets were a blockade fleet and a landing fleet respectively.
The blockade fleet is composed of two 10,000-ton supply ships and 20 Shark-class submarines. They will head to the Java Sea, where they will blockade several important ports on Java Island, including the capital of the Dutch East Indies.
Batavia. During this blockade, the Submarine Department
The team has been authorized by the Ministry of Defense. All ships flying the Dutch flag can be regarded as enemies and directly attacked. Ships flying the flags of other countries will be warned to leave nearby waters. Those who do not listen to the warning can be treated as enemies. However,
Except passenger ships.
The landing fleet, led by the heavy cruisers Asia and Africa, led 5 submarines and 4 destroyers, escorted 1 brigade and all equipment of the 1st Mountain Division, and set out from Cam Ranh Bay. Their target was Kalimantan.
Balikpapan, an important port in the southwest of the island, is an important oil producing area and oil processing center in the Dutch East Indies.
On the morning of February 7, 1917, just after all the blockade fleets arrived at the designated location, President Liu Fu of the South China Sea Federation signed the South China Sea Federation's declaration of war against the Netherlands at the Presidential Palace. This declaration would then be sent to the embassies of various countries in Taipei.
and consulates, and will also be reproduced by newspapers and radio.
This sudden declaration of war was sent to all parts of the world along with telegrams by ambassadors from various countries, and aroused different reactions from various countries. The first one to jump out was the British. At noon that day, the British ambassador came to the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express his views on the federal government's response to the Netherlands.
The declaration of war raised concerns and concerns, and implored the personnel of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to tell the Federal President that the United Kingdom was willing to act as a mediator between the Netherlands and the South China Sea Federation to mediate conflicts between the two parties.
The second one that jumped out was the United States. The U.S. ambassador said that the U.S. government was very concerned about the situation in the East Indies and reminded the South China Sea Federation not to expand the scope of the war and to resolve it peacefully if possible.
Then several European countries, including Germany, expressed confusion and regret over the South China Sea Federation's sudden declaration of war on the Netherlands.
Liu Fu ignored these ambassadors with their own agendas and just asked the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with them. He was currently planning the strategic goals for the next stage with the staff of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff, and had no time to pay attention to these stations.
A mouth trafficker who talks without pain.
Blockade of the Java Sea and landing on Balikpapan were not difficult at all in the eyes of the Ministry of Defense and Liu Fu. At that time, the Netherlands had only 7 warships in the East Indies, of which only 2 were old cruisers with over 3,000 tons, and the remaining 5 were
It’s not even a destroyer, at best it’s a coastal gunboat. And in Balikpapan port, according to information provided by the Ministry of Interior
According to the newspaper, there are only less than 300 troops, and most of them are local indigenous soldiers holding matchlocks. There seem to be only three small-caliber artillery pieces, and they are front-loaded bronze cannons. If faced with such a
If the land and sea defense forces and the federal army continue to be cautious, then officials in the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff Department can be laid off.
Since this time the war was declared against the Netherlands under the banner of liberating the discriminated against Chinese, the intelligence work of the Ministry of the Interior was secretly supported by the vast majority of the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies. In addition, the Ministry of the Interior had already begun collecting information on East Indies.
Intelligence collection work in the Indies, Peninsular Malaysia and other surrounding areas, so at this time, the South China Sea Federation may have a better understanding of the deployment of troops in the East Indies than the Governor of the Dutch East Indies.
On the day the war was declared, the blockade fleet sank 13 cargo ships with a displacement of more than 500 tons and flying the Dutch flag in the Java Sea. In order to avoid accidentally damaging Chinese ships, the submarines surfaced and used heavy weapons before attacking.
After machine guns stopped these ships, they conducted torpedo attacks after identification.
Since the Dutch did not expect that the South China Sea Federation would directly declare war on the Netherlands over such a trivial matter, they were not prepared. In the eyes of the Governor of the Dutch East Indies and the politicians in the Netherlands, the South China Sea Federation's previous announcement was nothing more than federal government.
It's just an attitude. The Dutch government has been doing this in the East Indies for more than 200 years. No one has ever jumped out to protest, so they didn't take the Federation's protest seriously.
When the South China Sea Federation declared war on the Netherlands, most Dutch officials and officers in the Netherlands East Indies did not realize that the declaration of war had anything to do with them. It was not until they received the news that the cargo ship was sunk that they suddenly felt
When they came out, it turned out that the war was so close to them.
