STATE OF TENSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 283, 28 November 1940, Page 18

STATE OF TENSION.

IN MALAY STATES. JAPANESE RELATIONS. The attitude of the Japanese inhabitant* of Singapore and the Federated Malay State* generally wan the subject of corn men t by Mr. W. P. Crawford and Mr. F,. P. Wilnon, two residents of Malaya, who arrived from Sydney yesterday by the flying boat Awarua. Mr. Crawford is a rubber planter and Mr. WiUon i* an educational officer to the Malayan Government. Both are on a holiday visit to the Dominion. J The visitor* remarked that the Japanese fully orrupicd one district in Singapore, and there were alxo large conceit - tint ion* of them over the country on rubber plantations, and also at two iron ore mine*, whose products went to Japan. They were pleasant enough people when matter* were going well with the Kmpire. but thpy were now often rude and ill-mannereu. In Singapore there «m a "certain a wnretiems" ( >f the >lapane»e situation, but. in spite of unsettled conditions generally, the port who thriving. It could also be assumed that, Japanese influences were fairly strong today in Thailand, although before the war Hriti«h snd German influence* had pre dominated.