Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 15 With the possibility of a future war crippling her communications with other parts of the British Empire and leaving her to depend upon her own resources, Malaya is now making a strong effort to become a self-supporting country, and investigations into her food problems to meet an emergency are at present being made.
Mr. C. A. Vlieland, one of the outstanding civil servants, who has been in Malaya for 25 years, has been appointed Chief Food Control Officer, a new post His main preoccupation is to preclude a repetition of the food fiasco experienced during the Great War, when Malaya paid $42,000,000 Straits: (about £5,000,000) for rice supplies from India, Burma and Siam.
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