Show Rubber and Tin Tinh In h Malay States Are Rich Prize Area Controlled by BrItish Supplies Important Products Tor U S Industries Colorful Singapore Britain's largest foreign naval base is u well known as the source of important important tant world news neus Less is u known however of o f the vast Malay pen peninsula peninsula at whose tip Singapore's load hundreds hundred of ships loth u ith large supplies o of f rubber tIn and other riches rhes o of f Malay the netherlands I Indies and Thailand ThaI ThaIland Tharland land Because thus this section o of f the globe obe is rs now more than o of f vItal interest in ui the news of the da the article below was prepared ve ye to V este a n Newspaper Un UD on OD and nd Copy by cy Na onal e c Soc ety Wish Nash D DC C On land which 50 years ago was a aI I dense tiger ID infested ested jungle planta plantation I tron owners in m the British protected I Malay States of southeastern ASia I are producing more than ilian a third of I the world s rubber supply I Much of the output is S sent to the United States for this country IS as ISi i not able to grow the rubber which Its factor es turn into t res rose dose mats balloons and a thousand and andone andone andone one other oilier articles Why does rubber flourish m in the Malay Peninsula Geography gives us the answer Rubber trees need plenty of ram rain and hot weather The Malay States are lust Just north of the Equator and their climate is one of the hottest and dampest m in the ilie world Similar clE mate makes rubber product on prot prof profitable also in the near by Nether Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands lands Indies Supply From Brazil The first rubber plants were brought to the ilie Malay States from BrazIl about 60 years ago and It soon became evident that they would grow well there Now the ilie Malay re region region glon gion far surpasses Brazil in rubber output partly because its planta plantations plantations are readily accessible to rail railroads railroads railroads roads and seaports while Braz Brazil s rubber trees are far inland in m wild ld country It was no easy Job ob to clear m mile e after m mile e of underbrush and 60 foot trees from the Malay jungles angles so that plantations could be developed Snakes and w Id t animals animals t gers el elephants elephants buffaloes and rhinoceroses were were a constant menace and ab aboriginal aboriginal original savages threw po darts at the workers Large Jungle areas hov however e eer er never have been cleared some parts have bave not even been explored Long before plantations were lard laId out to grow rubber p and other trop cal farm products the ilie Malay Pen was an important source of tin From its mines mmes still comes about a third of the world s stin stin tin supply Some of the ilie t n cans m In your kitchen cupboard were made from this trus Malayan ore for forthe forthe forthe the United States m nes virtually no tm tin tinTin Tin From Mountains l The tin tm ore is 15 found in m the heavily wooded mount mountain am ranges which rIse like a backbone along the ilie Malay |