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hundred and fifty feet. Where it is not covered by rubber plantations and other cultivation, it is covered with dense jungle.

3. Singapore has been a British colony for about a hundred years and during that time has absorbed all the trade in that part of the world, most of which was formerly in the hands of the Dutch.

4. The city itself contains about half a million people, more than half of whom are Chinese.

5. The position of Singapore is the most important point in the control of water trade routes from Australia to Europe to Asia, and has an influence on the trade routes from both of the Americas to Asia and Europe.

6. A radius of seven hundred and fifty miles from Singapore takes in Java, Borneo, the Straits of Malacca, Siam, and reaches Indo-China. A two thousand mile radius reaches Ceylon, the east coast of India, Hongkong, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the north west coast of Australia. Within this radius lie the oil fields of Borneo, Sumatra and Burma, and the rubber, tin and rice of the Malay Peninsula and contiguous territory so that, aside

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