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That is an incredibly cool example. The Btzg stands for "Buitenzorg", but I have not seen the "M.L." initials together (only separately for Southern/Eastern (M) and Western (L) Borneo, respectively). There are Military Police abbreviations that start with M.X. (with X running from A through G), but this one is unique. Best guess: Military Police Buitenzorg, with no other examples described (in Martens & DeVries, anyway). Thank you for posting.
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Buitenzorg was the Colonial Era name for what is now the modern city of Bogor in Java. Governor-General van Imhoff is credited with its discovery in 1745. He built a large country estate which he named Buitenzorg ('Without a Care'), but it was not until 1811 that it was first used as a country residence by Sir Stamford Raffles, during the British interregnum, and not until many years later that Bogor became the semi-official capital. Bogor has a nickname: the 'City of Rain'. Bogor has probably the highest annual rainfall in Java and is credited with a record 322 thunderstorms a year.
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