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MALAYA AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. AIRCRAFT ON WARSHIPS.

EFFECTS OF A POSSIBLE RUBBER SLUMP.

ECONOMIC FACTORS EFFECTING THE SITUATION,

SEAPLANE FOR ALL NEW CRUISERS.

THE LAUNCHING AND RE- TURNING PROBLEMS.

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The decision to furnish all the

An interesting statement regard-be considered to be beggarly wages. ing" the rubber situation, the But necessity has very efficient ways new cruisers, either built or build- prospects of Dutch co-operation, of bringing people to their senses.ing, with a seaplane apiece may be aad the comparative ability of So it may also be that a strike taken to mean that this has now British and Dutch rubber produc-of native tappers, working for come to be a recognized detail of ing countries to face the anticipat-native owners, would not last long.quipment in all large warships. Rubber And Rice.

The value of such an addition is ed slump has been received from

But whatever happens to nativemant of the launching catapult is self-evident. Of course, the develop. Mr. L. A. J. Rijk, of Kuala Lumpur, says Straits Times. He owned rubberland in Sumatra and the factor which has rendered this.

Borneo, there is one fundamental step easily practicable, (and in its effects very important) earlier stages of aircraft carrying in by warships the question of launch- ing was regarded as a very serious difficulty. Indeed, it was only pos sible in a strong wind, say, of at least twenty-five miles an hour. By would have his food all the same the teeth of this an air curreas of

writes:-

For the Dutch East Indies the coming slump in rubber will of course mean a financial loss. Some estate's may be wiped out and the natives in the rubber-producing

difference with conditions British Malaya. And that is this: even if rubber should become value less, the native owner in Sumatra

In the

parts of Sumatra and Borneo will and Borneo (generally speaking) steaming at full power right into

have las money or none at all to spend oa Juxuries. But the coun- try itself will not be materially affected.

For British Malaya on the other hand the coming slump will mean nothing short of famine for a large section of the native population, dependent on the proceeds of their amall toldings of rubberland. And the effect of the impaired economic position of the European-owned estates and of the rubbergrowing section of the native population will make itself very unpleasantly felt.

'in

Tho

whereas the native owner

anything between Afty and sixty British Malaya would not have it miles an hour was created, sufficient and would not have. the where to enable the reaplane to lift in the withal to buy it from outside. For very short run of her resting plat- the native in British Malaya has form. No fighting ship can provide planted rubber as his one and only run of deck adequate to taking-.

off in

a normal manner, he has to buy his food, whereas the tum which, coupled with the speed crop with the proceeds of which

launching catapult gives a momen--| nacivo in Sumatra and Borneo has of the ship, enables the aircraft to planted gubler as a secondary crop. get away without difficulty. To be In Sumatra and Borneo the natives sure, advantage is always taken of plant rice as landings. They clear the wind, and even a ten-knot forestiand and plant rice. So far rising of the machine on receiving breeze will greatly facilitate the there has been" enough land avail-ita kick-off able and no trouble in getting as The launching problem, therefore, For it is not sufficiently realised much more as is wanted.

may be regarded as solved. There While the rice is being planted, remains the rauch greater difficulty here that the economic position of British Malaya and of the Dutch

rubber stamps are stuck in. They of returning to the ship. In fine grow anyhow. Usually a second weather an aeroplane can light East Indies is entirely different. In 106 British Malaya imported

rice crop is planted. next year, upon the water under the lee of a $70,000,000 worth of rice and The rubber profits from the second ship and be hoisted in with the der- 830,000,000 worth of other food-tilling of the soil, but that is mere rick. But one cannot count upon "stuffa In 1997 the position certain-

ly an accident. When the second fine weather as a condition of man- rice crop has been harvested, the euvring at sea. In a strong head ly was not much different. British Malaya does not grow the food it land is abandoned and the native wind the seaplane will not have an requires; it buys it from outside passes on to another. bit of forest alighting speed much, if anything, and can do that only as long as

and. plants rice again. And sticka in excess of the rate at which a very it has other things to sell. When

in rubber stumps again as an after powerful warship could steam into the commodity has for sale is thought. Contrary to all the rules t But, again, one cannot count unsaleable it will have to stop buy of the game the rubber trees on the upon a strong head wind just when ing the food it requires or to mort-

abandoned lands lourish and when it is needed. The deck of a fight- gage its future!

they are 5 to years old, the native ing ship offers very little clear space owner comes back and finds him for the alighting of even the most self the proud possessor of a tap compact type of seaplane. The air- raft must keep its engine running or 6 days of extra work in the practically until it comes to rest,. course of as many years. Of course otherwise it will flop." If it were the trees are overtopped, in some possible to design an aircraft with. casca even tapped dry. That does an alighting speed so low that a not matter much; next year there warship could keep pace

with her will be another rubberfield ready the thing would be simple enough. to be maltreated. And so on in It would only be a question of man- perpetuity. He has his food; rub euvring her over her resting place, ber is an extra. He would not dropping & line, and hauling her have rubber if he had not planted into position. But it is very doubt- rice and keeps on planting rice. ful whether it will ever be practie- if his rubber becomes valueless he able to reduce the landing speed of will have to do without joy-rides, an aircraft much below fifty miles movies, boots, imported cigarettes an hour, and it needs baff-a-gule of and other luxuries. But he won't wind to enable a warship to create starve; he has one rice crop in his the equivalent of an air current of store and the next ons growing in this Velocity.-Naval and Militury the field.

Record.

The Food Supply.

A large proportion of this totalpable rubberfield that hna cost him of $100,000,000 worth of imported foodstuffs is beeded for labour on rubber-eatates, "for natives depen- dent on small holdings and for ali class, dependent on the prosperity of the former. Will they in the long run be able to pay for their food out of the proceeds of rubber sold! The only alternative to star vation is to plant food instead of rubber. But it takes time to con vert vaste land into tillable land and it takes time to grow food. And there are no other local in dustries capable of absorbing sudden excess of labour offering if the local rubbergrowing industry should collapse

FRESH WATER PEARL.

Even if the native rubber grow. ing industry in Sumatra and Buraco should collopse entirely, a large proportion of the native labourers would be absorbed by other form of agricultural indus- FIND IN A. FRENCH RIVER. try and the balance of them would find a living by collecting forest produce as they did before rubber. tapping required them.

· PARIS.

In the Dutch East Indies the situation is entirely different. And conditions in Java and Mädura are also quite different from those in Sumatra and Borneo. Java and Madura, with an area of 50,800 square miles (only 3 per cent. less than that of British Malaya) and with a population of about 10 times that of British Malaya, produce

Several pearls from fresh-water practically all the food they re-

Estate Owners.

pearl oysters, which are extremely quire. The area under rice alone

rare and are "found only a few ia over 13,500 square miles and is Estate owners in Samatra and streams in the British Isles and in equivalent to 27 per cent. on the Borneo will be in about the same one or two mountain terrents in the total area (mountain ridges and position those in British Auvergne region of France, have mountain tops included). The rice Malaya. And they, too, will not been discovered in the little River crop averages about 3,150,000 tons like the situation. But the Euro Ance, in the Lozère "department. yearly. Other food crops produced pean capital invested in there These fresh-water pearl oysters complete the food, requirements of Dutch East Indian estates is cerare casy to fish because they live in the populations and. leave a muz- tainly not more than a third of very shallow water. plus for export. Java exports rics superior quality and imports an inferior quantity. This quantity of imported rice is decreasing every year. In 1825 it was per cent. of the total quantity of rice consumed and 28 per cent. of all vegetable food consumed by the nativa population of about 38,000,000.

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East Indies, "did not waste any time on Java. All rubber coming from Java in estate rubber and And it is quite possible that a does not exceed a few tens of thou- greater proportion of the Dutch sands of tons. If every rubber East Indian rubber estates will be estate in Java were wiped out it better able to last through an im would be very unpleasant for their pending slump than the bulk of The following warships and ahareholders. But it would not the rubber

British auxiliaries were in pert yesterday: North Wall Basin, Wild Swan; affect the country. Every single Malaya, firstly, because a greater labourer on all these estates would proportion of the DEI. rubber South Wall Basin, Bruce, Moth immediately find work in other in estates are younger and were plant East Wall Basin, Wei, L., L.27; dustrics..

ed from improved and more pro- North Arm, Titania, Marazion, la Sumatra and Borneo, coun- ductive planting material that will Refgul; West Wall Docks, Petere tric larger and far less densely enable them to produce at a lower field, Durian; In Dock, 8/Ms. Li15, populated than Java, conditions cost per unit than the average L.13, L.20, L33; No. 3 Buoy, Verity, aro different. Sumatra produces Malayan estate; secondly, because Fishart: No. 4 Buoy, U.8.8. Hart, mostly estate-rubber but a good during the restriction period they, Rizal; No. 6 Buoy, Herwick, No. 1. deal of native rubber too. Borneo have profited from the then pre Buoy, Wizer; No. 8 Buoy, Wol- produces little estato rubber and vailing prices to a greater extent verine, Felcran No. 9 Buoy,. a good deal of native rubber. I than the restricted Malayan estates uzglove; No. 10 Busy, French, shall discuss native rubber first. If the latter, from the proceeds of igel; No. 11 Buoy, Witherington; What the native output will be restricted production, have been No. 12 Buoy, Iroquois No. 13 with rubber at 9d. per pound or able to make good the losses suffer Buoy, Wanderer; No. 18 Buoy, lower, nobody is able to say. The ed

during the slump, pay Ruthenia No.19 Buoy, Somme native population has been spoiled dividends and build up reserves, No. 23 Buoy, Kharki, Oil Fuel iry the long period of prosperity, the Dutch East Indian estates may Jetty, Francol, Kowloon and native labour, working on be expected to have done better still native-owned rubber land, way for and to be in at least as strong s some time consider it not worth | financial position' as the Malayan while to work for what now may estates.

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