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...Japan's most obvious lack. She produces only 10% of her peacetime needs. She depends for the rest on the U.S., the Netherlands East Indies, British Borneo, Latin America. Under the State Department policy designed to keep Japan from moving into the East Indies, the U.S. sent Japan 16,086,000 bbl. of petroleum and petroleum products in 1939, 11,529,000 bbl. last year, about 1,150,000 bbl. a month this year. Until this week, Japan also got 1,800,000 tons (around 14,000,000 bbl.) a year from the East Indies under a contract with...
Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...
Most logical spot for launching a Japanese drive to the south would be Japan's advance base at Formosa. Most likely main objective would be the island of Borneo, which has the oil supplies that Japan needs. Lightly held by Britain and The Netherlands, Borneo might seem easy to take. But between Formosa and Borneo lie 1,500 miles of water, over which Japan would have to stretch her supply line. Flanking the line are the great British fortress of Singapore, the lesser station at Hong Kong, the U. S. base at Cavite (Manila). Just beyond Borneo...
...against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side of Borneo-trusting to distance and superior force to keep off the British from Singapore-and force a Borneo landing, would even then have only a fair start to conquest of the Indies. And if the U. S. took a hand the Japanese would also have to take the U. S. base...
...whether dinosaurs laid eggs or bore their young alive. Andrews has done a great deal of other scientific junketing, slaking an insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...