MALAY DREDGES FOR SCRAP
Mr. Bernard Harris, city editor of the London Sunday Express, in an article published on Feb. 7, says: "Odd pieces of news coming out of Malaya include items which our tin-mining directors find far from comforting. The chairman of one of the best companies, a regular dividend payer before the war, tells me there is reason to believe that the Japanese have started to break up its seven immobilised dredges for scrap. "Japan has far more tin and rubber than she can use. She is short of cotton and jute. But iron and steel are probably the weakest links in her war-making potential. A modern tinmining dredge, which may cost anything up to £300,000, contains plenty of the highest grade steel scrap. They are not only costly. They take a long time to build. If the Japanese carry out the wrecking policy on a big scale, it will be years before Malayan tin output can approach normal."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 5
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