29 Dec 1949
1. J. A. Wattie & Co., Ltd., Marina House, Hong Kong, has large rubber interests and a few tin interests in Malaya.
2. This company believes that the USSR will purchase tin directly from the mines or from the tin smelter in Penang after the opening of the London Tin Exchange on 15 November 1949; the prices are expected to be based on the London quotation.
3. Tin stocks in Malaya are very large.
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