In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Celebes is Number 85 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Celebes (present-day Sulawesi, Indonesia) is a large island located east of Borneo, across the Makassar Strait. On the north it ...
