Rubber Bellwether of Malaya

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All during the war, intelligence had kept us informed. The Japanese have cut down any two thousand acres of rubber trees to make room for food crops. A number of rubber estates in the vicinity of Singapore have been cut down to provide fuel for Japanese cooking.

The Japanese are constructing defence positions in the rubber plantations which provide them and camel bars against allied air raid. The Japanese have cut a 20 foot swab on both sides of the main road through the rubber groves to minimize the chances of surprise and bush by Chinese resistance forces.

We knew what the Japanese had done to the rubber industry in Malaya, but there was no way of knowing the extent of the damage. You like to be pretty severe, I'd say. Hankins, we've been on our place in Malaya for so many years.

You could talk about it. You see, their first interest in cosmic is to hold Malaya and Singapore. Robert comes second. Yes. What I'm wondering is if the plan's been worked out for the rehabilitation of the rubber in the civil men, anything but the time we get back.