Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, exiled Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, the Ranee got a letter, from Australia. Excerpt: "I limit myself to one drink a day. I have it with two pals who are also dead broke owing to the Japs. We have all our meals in a hamburger shop around the corner. We get a hamburger, bread and butter...
...Charles Vyner Brooke, Britain's wealthy White Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, turned up in Sydney with all the chattels he had managed to save: a toothbrush and shaving kit in a cloth...
...Landed a huge force on oil-rich Sarawak...
...already struck at the Indies, hard, viciously, successfully. He has landed troops in Sarawak. He has put down three landing parties on the northern handle of Celebes, from which he may well establish some sort of control over sea traffic in the Straits of Macassar and Molucca Strait to the east and west of Celebes. He has also grabbed the little Dutch island of Tarakan (off Borneo), where the oil flows from the wells so pure that it can be pumped into the fuel bunkers of ships without refining...
BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Everything useful to the Japanese, including shipping, was destroyed at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, Borneo, before the small garrison fell back to Dutch Borneo, a Sarawak Government European officer who was among the last to leave said on his arrival here today...