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...high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command previously held by Homma...
...Malaya the Japs set up monopolies in salt, tobacco, matches. To get more money, they sold chances on a million-yen lottery to the Malays. At Singapore, a college of colonial administration was established for aspiring Jap administrators. Also opened in Singapore was a tourist bureau extolling the beauties of Nippon...
London Asiatic Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd., with properties in Malaya, issued a report to comfort its stockholders...
Last fortnight the Japs took the last Chinese gap in one section of this route (Hangchow to Nanchang). Last week they reached for the railway between Nanchang and Chuchow, which in turn joins lines to Kwangsi, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya...
...Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...