Word: sarawak
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...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...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
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...
...well. It looked as if Japan might win far more than she had staked and might win it the only way she could, quickly. Already she had achieved naval supremacy in the western Pacific, air supremacy in the Philippines and Malaya. She had taken Guam, Wake, Mindanao, Hong Kong, Sarawak, most of Luzon, nearly half of Malaya...