Word: sarawak
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...planes over Pearl Harbor, scores of transports off Malaya, 200,000 men thrown at Luzon, oil burned up in submarine raids off California, shells pumped onto Guam, Wake and Midway, artillery squandered at Hong Kong, shrapnel consumed in a new Chinese offensive, cruisers risked in an attack on Sarawak, precious bombs dropped on Sumatra and Burma-a total bet of nearly all Japan's power. At best Japan stood to lose far more than she could replace soon; at worst, everything...
...naval ships to Singapore. Dutch submarines harassed the Japanese supply lines for the assault on Malaya. Dutch planes attacked the Japanese attackers of Mindanao, the southernmost major Philippine Island. Dutch planes and submarines played a doomful tune on the hulls of Japanese ships heading for Raja Brooke's Sarawak...
...Japanese had an easy time in Malaya, if they took the Philippines, then the Dutch islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra would be next on the list of the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. And first to fall would probably be Borneo, of which the Brookes' Sarawak is a small part...
...rubber, hard woods, copra, coconuts, hemp, pepper, sago. In places red veins of iron ore crumble right out of the earth's surface, but they have not yet been tapped. Coal is known to lie just under the surface, but it has not yet been mined. With all Sarawak's natural wealth, some of Raja Brooke's main sources of revenue are, according to the ultra-conservative Statesman's Year Book, "customs, the Government opium monopoly, gambling, arrack and pawn farms" (ie) the Government farms out licenses for gambling, the sale of distilled rum, pawning...
...Dutch will not take that blow without trading blows of their own. They have set their submarines and planes a stiff quota: one Japanese ship a day. Last week, after 19 days of a kind of fighting that the first white Raja of Sarawak never pictured, even in nightmares, they were not far behind their quota. They had sunk...