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...commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely...
...collection of cattle comprises eleven different kinds of buffaloes, from Africa, India, America, Malaya, Java, and Tibet. The sheep and goat heads include specimens from the high mountains of North America, Asia, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Alps...
Appointed. Sir William Peel, 55, career administrator and adviser since 1897 in British Malaya (Penang, Singapore, Kedah, etc.); to be Governor of Hongkong, important British naval station and trade mart in the Orient (average annual trade $500,000,000). Sir William succeeds to the post and salary ($30,000) of Sir Cecil Clementi, promoted Governor of the Straits Settlements...
...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
Strong Tin. No precious metal is tin, yet it is one of the rarest of the common metals. Tin deposits in British Malaya produce about 60,000 tons annually; Dutch East Indian deposits about 35,000, Bolivian about 40,000, Nigerian about 9,000 tons-total 143,000 tons. World production last year was only 159,135 tons. Metallurgists see no likelihood of new tin fields being soon discovered and many of the mines now being operated will run out just as the once-famed Cornish tin mines are now virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus...