The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 342: Chapter 296: The Batavia Agreement (Request for monthly votes!)

If the conditions of Australasia seemed to be a bit of a lion's roar, th the conditions proposed by the Dutch Governmt were simply nonsse.

It was absolutely impossible for the Australasian Governmt to mobilize so many people just for a compsation of 0,000 pounds and an apology.

Such conditions were akin to dismissing beggars, and only strgthed the resolve of Kt, who was originally determined to take advantage of the Dutch.

"If your country doesn't have much sincerity in the peace talks, th I think it's better to let the military strgth of both sides decide the outcome. The conditions of the peace talks can be decided by the victorious side in the war, regardless of the outcome, we will not have any objections." Minister Kt sneered at the Dutch represtative and put forward his own opinions.

Kt was a graduate of the Military University and had once served as Australasia's Minister of Defse.

Kt, imbued with a military atmosphere, spoke in a straightforward manner, unlike the hypocritical politicians.

"This..." The Dutchman was dumbfounded, not expecting such an aggressive stance from the represtative of Australasia, who was considering solving the issue through military action in just a few words.

"Mr. Kt, since you have come to participate in these peace talks, it is reasonable to assume that Australasia has an inttion for peace talks.

Why not give the Dutch governmt more time to discuss, and I believe they will come up with satisfactory conditions." In the d, the Germans couldn't stand it any longer, looked at Kt with a slight smile, and eased the awkward atmosphere at the conferce table.

"Governor, you better hurry to telegraph your country and come up with a satisfactory solution." With that, the German represtative looked at the Governor of the Dutch East Indies and said unhappily.

Although Germany and the Netherlands have always had a good relationship, it doesn't mean that the Germans are willing to give up a good relationship with Australasia to help the Dutch unconditionally.

Since the Second Moroccan Crisis made the Germans feel isolated and helpless, the German governmt has be ev more proactive in attracting allies, which is why they were willing to accept the invitation of the Dutch governmt and participate in these peace talks as a neutral party.

However, the problem is that the Netherlands is now completely incomparable to Australasia in terms of comprehsive strgth or strategic position.

Australasia's unique geographical location allows it to detach itself from the main contradictions in Europe and watch the developmt and changes in the European situation.

The reason why William II wanted to make frids with Australasia was that he valued Australasia's advantageous geographical location and believed that Australasia could provide unexpected assistance to Germany in the conflict betwe Germany and France.

Of course, with Britain's involvemt, the conflict betwe Germany and France has now evolved into a conflict betwe Britain-France-Russia and Germany-Austria-Italy.

The special relationship betwe Australasia and Britain has greatly reduced the chance of Australasia directly joining Germany in the conflict.

But don't forget, Australasia has a lot of mineral resources that Germany needs domestically. It can completely reach a trade agreemt with Germany in a neutral way, which is what Germany needs in the war.

Moreover, Australasia can now serve as a fallback option for Germany, while German New Guinea is a gift prepared by William II for Arthur.

Australasia did not have many opportunities to expand its territories, considering its few neighboring countries.

At prest, except for the Dutch East Indies, most of the neighboring regions are colonies of powerful countries.

This made it difficult for Australasia to expand its territories, and considering Arthur's goal had always be to develop the homeland, Australasia had only used war and conflict to expand its territories twice since its establishmt.

On August 9, 9, after more than t days of tse negotiations, Australasia and the Dutch governmt finally reached an agreemt called the Australasia-Dutch Batavia Agreemt.

The Batavia Agreemt stipulated that both sides would cease hostilities in the Dutch East Indies region from the date of the agreemt's signing and resume good diplomatic relations prior to the conflict.

To express their apologies to Australasia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands ceded all islands and archipelagos east of Bali Island, south of Flores Sea and Banda Sea, and west of New Guinea.

At the same time, the Kingdom of the Netherlands offered £0,000 in compsation to the attacked Australasian merchants and £ million to the Australasian governmt, which represted all Australasian citizs.

In the d, the Australasian side gave up its demand for the western part of New Guinea Island, considering it constituted nearly a quarter of the tire Dutch East Indies with an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

After the treaty was signed, both Australasia and the Dutch breathed a sigh of relief.

For Australasia, it had gained ts of thousands of square kilometers of land and millions of indigous people without losing a single soldier or ev just a declaration by the governmt, along with £ million in compsation from the Dutch side; it was surely a win-win.

After all, Arthur's original inttion in sding Charles Wynne to the Dutch East Indies was merely to integrate rubber companies and manor houses in Southeast Asia and control the rubber industry there.

Who could have imagined that some shortsighted individuals in the Dutch East Indies would bring such huge losses to their country by provoking them?

As for the Dutch governmt, although they had ceded many islands and archipelagos, the main islands of the Dutch East Indies were not affected.

The good news was that the most important island, Java, still had a large island called Bali to the east, which prevted the Australasians from directly reaching Batavia and Java Island.

After all, it was just some islands in the south of the Dutch East Indies, right? With a population of just over a million indigous people, the damage to the wealthy Dutch East Indies wasn't that big anyway.

It's much better than losing New Guinea Island or ev jeopardizing Java Island! Such a loss would have truly overturned Dutch rule in the East Indies and ignited public outrage in the Netherlands.

As for the archipelago that was ceded now, the Dutch governmt guided domestic public opinion to pretd that the governmt had resisted in many ways, only to change the colossal demand of the Australasians into a few small archipelagos.

After all, the public could see the huge military disparity betwe the two sides, and with some guidance of public opinion, the Dutch would only vt their anger on the Australasians without paying too much atttion to their governmt's powerless performance in this incidt.

With a relatively peaceful conclusion, the conflict in Southeast Asia also came to an d. It was undoubtedly one of the most peaceful and fridly resolutions of any conflict in rect years.

However, for Australasia, accepting these islands ceded by the Dutch would take some effort and might ev require the use of military force.