ERNEST Franois Eugne Douwes Dekker hurriedly contacted Resident Priangan, M F Tijdeman on July 24, 1936. He was upset and wanted to meet to protest. That day, armed with a warrant from the attorney's office, the head of Political Intelligence of Bandung, arrived at Ksatrian Istitute in Bandung and confiscated the manuscripts on the history of East Asia that Dekker had written.

But the meeting did not take place until the following morning. In a mee