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...December 1941, Pacific Tin Consolidated Corp. destroyed its Malayan mines on orders from the British. Result: $10.6 million damage claims filed with the U.S. and British Governments...
...Malayan rubber was not lost to the U.S. Last week it was learned that a small trickle has begun to come to U.S. ports once more-via Japan and Russia. Tokyo, saddled with a mountainous surplus, sells it to the Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan's allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore's wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand...
According to Domei's Malayan correspondent: Cherry trees transplanted ten years ago from Japan to a cool retreat near Singapore never bloomed in the shadow of the Union Jack. But this year, promptly on Kigensetsu (Japanese Empire Day) all the little cherry trees burst into bloom. The natives were said to be impressed...
...people in peacetime, India during World War II no longer can count on the twelve million tons of rice formerly imported (1937-38) from Burma, Thailand and Indo-China. Almost two million Indian soldiers are eating more than ever before; half a million Burmese and Malayan refugees have to be fed, as do American and Chinese troops...
...perfectly planned, perfectly executed Malayan campaign that ended at Singapore, the Japanese used fewer than 75,000 jungle fighters against 92,000 British troops who were pitifully untrained for such warfare. Jap casualties were probably fewer than...