Tjong A Fie
..Your Excellency might know that I see the Major Tjong A Fie as one of the most remarkable persons among the prominent names in these colonies. With his great gifts of head and heart and his extraordinary capacities, … he could obtain any position he wanted…
(Governor van der Plas of Sumatra's Eastcoast in a letter to the Governor General in Jakarta, 1916) (p.27)