...after July 21 the situation was getting increasingly out of control. Entire areas of Kajoetangan were looted...the Rex Theater, on the upper floors of which Chung Hua Chung Hui has its offices, was in ruins, only the walls remainingHotel Repoeblik, which is located on the same street, was razed to the ground.

ONE can imagine how on that eventful day after July 21, 1946, Tjamboek Berdoeri alias Kwee Thiam Jing pedaled his bicycle around the city