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...property, or sank into fatty degeneracy under the stewing sun, Raffles immersed himself in tireless study of his surroundings-establishing a tradition of government research that has made Indonesia one of the best documented areas of the British Empire. Botanist, cartographer, linguist, historian, Raffles tramped the jungles of Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken from the French by the British Navy, Army, and young Raffles. When, after six years of labor, the young clerk thought he had attained his principal ambition by being made Lieutenant-Governor of Java, European politics smashed...
...India, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Siam, British Pacific Islands, French Pacific Islands, Guam, Java, The Netherlands Indies, Philippines, Samoa and Sumatra...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
Damage to trees and plantations, in general, was small. In Malaya the British estimated that only 5% of the trees were destroyed. But on its $38-million plantation in Sumatra the U.S. Rubber Co. lost 1.8 million trees out of 10 million. The Japs cleared the land to raise food...
...minutes before the Japs arrived, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) engineers had blown up its $30 million refinery at Palembang, Sumatra...