"Equally strong are Chinese stakes in the Netherlands East Indies, More than 20,000 Chinese are working as labourers on tobacco estates on the east coast of Sumatra, while thousands of Chinese labourers are ements were immediately ployed in the exploitation of tin rhis} y în official automobiles mines of Bangka Billion. the military headquarters where "Chinese have also settled in most "Grasett broke a precedent towns of Borneo for generations and held a press conference. conduct most of the trading operations.
"We can go on enumerating similar Chinese interests in other South Sea countries. Suffice it to say that defences the Japanese could claim special in-reserve supplies would enable terests in these regions, China would St to hold out for a considerable have a far stronger case. time, "In the case of French Indo-China, gkong's role at present is China will not hesitate to use force defensive, General Grasett to protect the lives and properties of He stressed that British policy Chinese there, in the event they are resent was concerned with main-threatened by the Japanese. n bases and with-"In the case of other countries in wing from -essential territory the South Seas, China will be ready Siino the British with-to ce-operate with interested Powers British Somaliland. in frustrating Japanese ambitions," the bros runned the Colony's "Hankow Herald" concludes.—Reuter.
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