More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies. The Dutch had renewed their offer of dominion status under a Dutch governor general. Indonesian nationalists rejected the offer.

More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies last week. Little of it was Dutch. Their troops hovered in ships off Java’s great naval base of Surabaya. Ashore, British casualties went over 300, Indonesian over 2,000.

The British still said that they were merely trying to restore order. Major…