BANGKOK DOCK COMPANY
JAPANESE BID FOR CONTROL SINGAPORE, June 12. (Received June 13, at 0.15 a.m.) Reports from Bangkok state that important Japanese interests are bidding for control of the Bangkok Dock Company, of which the biggest shareholders are United Engineers, Singapore. The reports arc not confirmed, but it is stated that the Japanese are most anxious to increase their docking facilities in Siam. Japanese control Malayan iron mining, and since 1921 9,000,000 tons of iron ore have been exported to Japan. The latest extension is an option over the Perak property, valued at 1.500,000 dollars and estimated to hold 7,000,000 tons of ore.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22906, 13 June 1936, Page 14
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