. Indies Are Rich In *
Oil, Rubber, Gold
(Fifth and last of a series on pos
sible Pacific invasion spots).
# By THOMAS A. BOYNTON
I/P) Newsfeatures Writer
The Japanese intended to have
the Netherlands East Indies serve
them with vital war materials.
But their shipping lanes have been
shattered by Allied bombers and
^submarines.
The Indies, tropical and well
vegetated, are rich in oil, farm
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products, quinine, rubber, bauxite,
iron, coal and gold. There are also
many industrial factories.
Principally, Holland’s East In
dian equatorial empire includes
! half of New Guinea, shared with
j Australia; two thirds of Borneo,
shared with Great Britain; and
the large islands of Sumatra, Cele
I bes and Java. Portugal shares the
island of Timor with the Dutch.
J With these and a ^network of lesser
1 islands, the Indies comprise 733,
1681 square miles, stretching for
i over 3,000 miles in a broad band
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from southern Asia to Australia.
Prewar population of the Neth
erlands Indies numbered over 69
millions, 250,000 of them Euro
peans and about 5,000 Japanese.
Most of the natives were Moham
medans.
Java has been the political, eco
nomic and social heart of this col
ony. With its administartive part
| ner, Madoera, Java covers an area
of some 51,000 square miles and
maintains 50 million inhabitants,
nearly two-thirds of the islands’
population.
On Java is Batavia, the national
capital and largest city; Soerabaja
chief Indies seaport and naval
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base; and other population cen
j ters, military bases, shipyards, air
craft and other warplants and
vast farms.
Borneo, the largest island in the
archipelago, has an area of 206,819
square miles. Southwestern Bor
neo has few seaports, but on the
British side are the splendid bays
of Sandakan and Cowle, prewar
world shipping ports. Borneo’s
coastal regions are broad and
marshy, low enough to sometimes
be flooded, and malaria is preva
lent. In the interior are mountain
! ranges, valleys and plains.
Celebes resembles a huge octo
pus with its back to Borneo and
its tenacles stretching eastward
New Guinea, 475 miles away. Half
again as large as New York State,
the island has many deep gulfs
and bays, but treacherous coral
reefs and sandbars fringe the
shore to menace navigation. Man
ado in the north and Makassar in
the south are modern cities, pre
war world trade centers. Two ma
jor mountain ranges form a rug
ged inland backbone, north to
south.
From Sumatra’s 163,183 square
miles of fertile plains and high
plateaus come a harvest of riches.
The eastern shores made the is
land easy prey to the Japanese; the
beaches are seemingly endless.
Allied conquest of New Guinea
restored a number of important
bases to the Dutch who immedi
ately started the rebirth of the
colony. Eventual cleanup of the
Japanese from these islands, how
ever, has appeared necessary. No
one easily could be starved out in
the Dutch East Indies.
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