PURCHASE OF TIMOR
JAPAN DENIES CONTEMPLATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 12. (Received October 13, at 12.15 p.m.) The Japanese Embassy emphatically denies that Japan contemplated purchasing a portion of Timor or bad offered, in the past, to buy the Australian mandate of New Guinea. [The Portuguese possess the northern portion of the island of Timor, in the Malay Archipelago. The area they hold is 7,450 square miles, with a population of 394,514. The Dutch own the other part of the island. Kupang (Timor) is a favourite jumping off place for airmen on the last lap of the flight from London to Australia.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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103PURCHASE OF TIMOR Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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