RUBBER & TIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1942, Page 3

RUBBER & TIN

LITTLE LEFT TO ENEMY IN MALAYA DESTRUCTION OF JAPANESE PLANES. BY ALLIED FORCES IN BURMA. LONDON, January 9. Sixty to 70 per cent of the tin production of Malaya is no longer available to cither the British or Japanese and the rest to the British only. Of rubber production, 50 per cent is no longer available to us and the other half is only available to the Japanese under considerable difficulties. In Burma 53 Japanese planes have been destroyed by • Allied aircraft since the war began. Yesterday American airmen destroyed seven enemy light bombers on the ground at an aerodrome in Thailand., One of three Japanese planes was shot down in an attack on Eastern Borneo. The other two enemy machines missed their targets. NO SECOND SURPRISE DEFENCE OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. ANOTHER JAPANESE ATTACK EXPECTED. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 9. It is expected in Hawaii that the Japanese may launch another attack on the islands. The commander-in-chief of the United States forces there said today: “We will not be surprised again. We will hold the islands, which are the key to this side of the Pacific.”