Short De Waarheid column (21 Apr 1949) attacking writer A. den Doolaard for a De Linie piece on maltreatment of imprisoned Dutch collaborators, contrasting it with alleged Dutch crimes in Indonesia, including mass killings of women and children. No Gerwani content; background to Dutch colonial-war propaganda.
Emmer Courant 'Indonesië' news column (7 Nov 1949, p.3): Dutch troops to evacuate Solo and Madiun; standing law in Wonosobo; and the murder of Farokafabrieken inspector Th. Pluyter by a band in the Masamba area, 'seems to have been led by' Makassar councillor Salawati Daoed (Salawati Daud), who drove there in a municip
Nieuwsblad voor de Hoeksche Waard en IJselmonde, 7 November 1949, p. 2: news-column fragment including the murder of Th. Pluyter by a gang near Masamba 'apparently led by' Makassar council member Salawati Daud, with six arrests. Other items cover Marshall aid, English replacing Dutch in Indonesian schools and Anak Agun
Het Vrije Volk front-page column 'Van daar' (8 Nov 1949): opens with the claim that Salawati Daud, female member of Makassar's city council, proved to be leader of the band that kidnapped and murdered a Faroko factory representative in South Celebes; six members including 'the female band leader' are arrested. The rest
De Waarheid column "Our Strength" by L.B. (25 Nov 1949) on the WIDF Council meeting in Moscow (15-20 Nov) and the 1948 Budapest congress, reflecting on women's unity and the daily struggle of a Dutch communist housewife. Indonesia appears only in a list of women's liberation struggles.
Nieuwe Courant, 3 December 1949: commentary profiling 'Lot Salawati' (Salawati Daud) as 'very left and very revolutionary', leader of the Masamba gang. It speculates that she was humiliated at the Indonesian Women's Congress in Yogyakarta and then at home in Makassar, and sought rehabilitation through violence; it also