15 Chinese seamen dead
In April 1942, 400 Chinese seamen on the Antilles go on strike. They are badly paid even though they work in the holds of the oil tankers, the most dangerous place to be during submarine attacks. But strikes are forbidden because of the importance of the work to the war effort. The strikers are arrested immediately. The police suppress the ensuing unrest with a great deal of violence. They shoot 15 Chinese seamen.

Censors
An article about the poor treatment of the Chinese seamen is banned by the censors. The editors draw attention to the rights of the Chinese by leaving the space for the article blank apart from a brief text from the Curacao regulations on the abolition of slavery.