The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-16

Take me to the Rallies Hotel" Piggy "go" in Maayan oiaiect Ana Rallies Hotel is the social center of the town named after Sir Thomas Stamford Rallies himself, no less Many things bear his name from Rallies Place to Rallies Chambers Rallies Quay and Rallies College Rallies Museum and Rallies Cafe They honor their citys founGer in this southernmost tip of the continent of Asia, this seethng, coorful seaport town through which pours the riches of the East Indies and rightly may they do him honor for through his vision it is his due.
 British Malaya includes Straits Settements-chef components of which are Singapore and Penang; then there are the Federated Malay States of Perak Seangor, Negri Semban and Pahang, and then, there are the Unfederated Malay States of Johore Kodah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu, each with Moham- medan sutans or rajahs and British advisors All told British Malaya comprises little 50,000 square miles of territory, comprising peninsula reaching southward within seventy miles of the equator with population of three and half million people.
 And from this colonial empire of the British comes almost all of the rubber in the world and good share of the tin as we'll Rubber and tin and copra are the chief exports totang many millions of dollars year in value. Where British money is, there too come her ships. That's reason why Singapore clears some 1000 cargo vessels every year. and puts her high up in the rank of great seaport of the world
 To revert again to the foresight of the British in acquiring this important foothold in the Far East, one is reminded that when the Rajah or Sultan Of Johore 17o3 offered the island to Captain Hamilton of the British navy it declined, but the captain went on record that it was proper place to settle
 colony in lying the center of trade and accommo- dated with good rivers and safe harbour, convent ently situated that all winds shipping both to go out and come into these rivers"
 This description of Singapore has been bet tered as early Portuguese navigators attesed that Singapore harbor resorted all the navgators of the western seas of India and the eastern of Siam China, Campa and Camboda." The Portuguese were the first settlers; then came the Dutch, and after the Dutch left Maacca 1795 the British undertook their first real effort at empire building in what has become one of the first cities of the Orient-Singapore.
 With of about the state of Alabama, Maaya does business that this should run well several billion dollars. In 1883 Mayala exported two-thirds of the worlds rubber and sixty per cent of the worlds tin to say nothing of ten mil lion dollars worth of copra cocoanut meat, and everything else from palm oil and pineappes to oil of cloves and peppermint juice list of the products would be redoent of the Orient and remind you of the given in geographies for the search of Columbus for a new world-'for the spices of the orient, frankincense and myrrh" But actually, the chief products of economic value are rubber copra and tin.
 We are treated royalty in this eminently British city including visit to the Swimming Club, with its specially constructed pool with fresh water Salt water bathing ndulged in to any great extent because of prevalence of sharks in the bay We invited to the American consul's home for dinner, together with Senator and Mrs. Wheeler and their daughter Miss Frances Wheeler and Senator Reynolds of North Carolina with his daughter We go to the vice con- suls home for tea and meet number of the American business men in the city of which incidentally, there are very few.
 Though Singapore has a present population of something over 5000 there only 8200 Europeans in which classification the several hundred American residents also are counted There are about 10000 Malays some 5000O Hindus: 5000 Arabs and 42OOoo Chinese The Chinese the business men and tradesmen of the port in fact of the whole penin sula They the bankers and the brokers thor oughy loyal to the British the most ardent Brtsher, but true also to their racial background Many wealthy Chinese has ourneyed back to the
 land of his ancestors and endowed colleges and schools and hospitals for the fortunate inhabitants of the teemng celestial empire.
 A group of us fortunate enough to be invited to attend a Chinese dinner at the home of MT. Tap Twee, managing director of the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, native of Singapore and wealthy cultured gentleman We impressed by the hospitality and the splendid courtesy of host and hostess, but even the best Occidental patience feels exhaustion in the last stretches of Recourse dinner starting at o'clock and ending after twelve. We started in with birds nest soup a thrice-dis- titled that to say the least extremely palatable After that sharks fins fried and then sharks fins grilled. Clark Howell distinguished editor of the Atlanta Constitution member of party, exclaimed that now he understood why sharks were part of the life of the universe. Then came roast ducks skins, portion of dragon lobster and in order whet appetites food to come after the Chinese custom, served with another order of soup-the beginning of section two of the dinner so to speak. Pigeon soup is good the fried garoup fish that resembles the red snapper of our Atlantic coast.
 Then came dish which American chefs could well investgate-fred chicken with ham. The chicken