Show T HAS HASE Son t j E Ao t HII Kota Alor Star George Ton i N Prat Kuala II MA LAYS Port Weld ES Port i- i Swettenham J MANGANESE Port Dickson q jm j f ca a Ila CU CUIl Il NuA e y Q 1 4 Q Q MALAY STATES o 00 mo moRite Rite Coffee STATUTE M LS LES Rubber Coconuts Pineapples Hardwoods Q Prepared by The National Geographic Society The above map explains e in m detail the he source of the important products obtained on the Malay peninsula Most I important of o these supplies as indicated are rubber tin tm pineapples and other tropical farm arm products Japan already entrenched in French Indo China reportedly could use many of the products now going to the United States and Great Britain Peninsula The ore is dredged from tremendous open pits Along with tm tin miners dig for tor smaller amounts of gold iron manganese lead and tungsten The latter is S vital for making the filament used in electrIc light bulbs The laborers who first fast mined the tin and who d d much of the ilie work of clearing the ilie jungles were not the native Malays but Chinese The let lat latter letter latter ter came to the ilie region m in large num numbers numbers hers bers and now make up about two fifths of the Malay States population population tion of some 4 The Malays short brown skinned and thick set with straight black blackhair blackhair blackhair hair are a clever people but like many residents of hot countries they are not overly industrious One reason is that food clothing and shelter are not hard to obtain Many of the Malays wear only a jacket and a sarong live jive in m clus clusters clusters clusters of bamboo or thatched huts bu lt It Iton Iton on piles and eat 1 besides rIce and fish British De Development Development of the ilie Malay States has been m in the hands of the British ever since Sir Stamford Raffles an Englishman who envisioned a great future for the region founded the port of Singapore in m 1819 Its s to te teon toon teon on an island at the southern t p of the pen was then part of the Jungle but now Singapore has grown into a colorful tan cIty one of the world s leading ports Its importance as a sh cen center center center ter is S derived from its situation Ships traveling bet veen the Pacific and the Indian Indan oceans pass it it Singe pore s wharves handle not only Ma Malay Malay Malay lay rubber and the tin tin the latter IS smelted in the cIty but city but the riches of the ilie Netherlands Indies and ThaI ThaIland Thailand Thailand land The Brit sh have fort fied fled the port as their largest foreign naval base |