[DIPLOMACY] Regarding the dissolution of the North Borneo Chartered Company, and of the island of Labuan

To His Majesty's Government in London, from His Highness' Government in Kuching

The British Military Administration in Borneo is due to be dissolved at some point later this year, most likely in July, and the return of civilian government to Borneo's British-linked territories requires some decisions to be made regarding certain questions.

Putting aside the question of His Highness' continued employment of British Civil Servants (an arrangement with which we see no problems and will continue to employ), as well as the repatriation of Japanese prisoners-of-war, Sarawak takes the greatest interest in the question of the North Borneo Chartered Company and the territories under it's jurisdiction.

It is clear to us that the NBCC is no longer fit to govern. Government by corporation, for the sole purpose of producing dividends, ought not be allowed to continue. The NBCC's assets are worthless, they can take no loans, and their shareholders have received nothing for many years now. Since 1942 the Company has been effectively defunct, with all assets under the control of the Japanese or destroyed in their invasion. The capital city of Sandakan has been left in ruins due to the war. The timber export trade has been reduced to almost nothing. The rubber plantations are burnt down. In short, North Borneo has suffered far greater than Sarawak - our capital Kuching was undamaged during the war, thank the Lord - and His Highness feels duty-bound to assist in the restoration of good government and prosperity to the territory.

His Highness therefore proposes a relatively simple solution. The Rajah of Sarawak, Anthony Brooke, will make an offer of Β£1.4 million for all assets of the NBCC including their Charter to govern North Borneo, and will turn this over as a free endowment to the Raj of Sarawak. In effect, this will make North Borneo part of Sarawak, while providing funds to your government to help redress the claims of the NBCC's shareholders which are even now being pressed in the courts of London. This is more than 60% of the compensation first offered during the War and given the more accurate knowledge we now have of the state of North Borneo's destruction we feel that this is a much fairer offer.


Additionally to the matter of North Borneo, there is now the matter of the island of Labuan. Until the dissolution of the Straits Settlements earlier this month and the creation of the Malayan Union and the Colony of Singapore, Labuan

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Coat of Arms of the North Borneo Charted Company (aka the British North Borneo Company) which administered North Borneo. Modern-day state of Sabah, Malaysia. reddit.com/gallery/r231xg
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Battle of Balikpapan, Borneo. 2 July 1945. Machine gunners from 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, 7th Division (Australia), giving support to troops of D Company, 2/27th Infantry Battalion, as they move north-east along the Vasey Highway towards the 'Reward' feature during Operation Oboe 2. (639 x 496)
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Study of a rare British North Borneo Company banknote!

5 dollars type 1940: https://www.numizon.com/en/news/5-dollars-type-1940-british-north-borneo/

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Sabahan views on British North Borneo Company

So there was this post on Facebook where it said that the Brooke Family rule in Sarawak was colonialism, and usually the general sentiments on colonialism is negative. However in the comments Sarawakians came to the defence of the Brookes, saying that they were actually good and locals were not treated badly, unlike their contemporaries in the peninsula. It was quite eye-opening, as we were always taught to see the British colonists negatively.

Now I'm wondering about Sabah. What was pre-independence Sabah under the British North Borneo Company like? Were locals treated well or abused? Did they develop the territory or exploited it? What do Sabahan think of them in general?

Sarawakians may provide more insight to the Brooke family as well if you wish.

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today on 15 Jan , 1942 Japanese Occupy Labuan Island near Coast of British North Borneo .
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British North Borneo 1899 - Company estates labelled
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Members of 2 Platoon, B Company, 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion, 26th Brigade (Australia) with a Vickers MG. Brunei Bay Area, North Borneo. 17 Jun 1945
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What if Borneo was in the North Pacific?

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Alocasia watsoniana from West Borneo (left) and North Sumatra (Right) both are beautiful 🌱🌱
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Britain has several Chartered Companies that often were granted monopolies and other privileges on some geographic region, the East Indies Company being the chief and most notorious among these. Why did the British government decide to grant such privileges to so many companies?

Also, it wasn't just Britain. Several countries has similar companies. Answers regarding these countries are accepted as well.

What was the economic thinking related to the creation of these companies? Why did they fall out of favour? etc.

EDIT: Britain *had

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General Douglas MacArthur at a field-conference of high-ranking Allied officers at Labuan, North Borneo, 10 Jun 1945. Source - United States Navy
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New Flag of Sabah (aka North Borneo)
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Japanese troops landing off the west coast of British North Borneo in Labuan, 14 January 1942.
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CA(chartered accountant) Vs CS(company secretary) which one should i take?

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The Two-Headed Serpent - North Borneo question. Keepers only.

So, I'm about to start this chapter in the campaign and there's something that I'm struggling with. I really want one of my players to be infected by the Yellow Death and to be forced to Hybridate. However, it takes 48 hours to get to the 3rd stage of the decease and Caduceus brings a formula that allows players to heal themselves if they are on the first two stages. I could remove that and make it more extreme, I know, but in addition to that, the Haftorang device is supposed to explode 24 hours aprox, after the start of the chapter.

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A short history of a proposal to sell North Borneo (Sabah) to Japan in 1879 and 1893

Viscount Aoki Shuzo (3.3.1844 -16.2.1914) a diplomat and foreign Minister in Meiji period Japan was born to a Samurai clan as a son of a physician in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He studied western science and medicine at a school Meirinkan in Hagi.

After medical training in Nagasaki, he was sent by the clan to study in Germany in 1868. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1873. After serving as first secretary at the Ministry, he became minister to Germany in the next year. Subsequently, he held various offices including minister to Austria and Holland.

Aoki Shuzo in his letter to Munemitsu Mutsu (Foreign Minister) dated 5.12.1893 mentioned that in 1879, he had proposed that Hirobumi Itoh (Home Minister) and Count Kaoru Inoue (Foreign Affairs) should purchase North Borneo from the Austrian Baron Von Overbeck for the sum of one million yen silver in 1879 but Itoh and Inoue decline Aoki's proposal. Hence, North Borneo came under British Rule and the British North Borneo Chartered Company was established to administer the territory in 1881.

When the Chartered Company suffered heavy losses, Rajah Charles Brooke of Sarawak made a bid to take over the Company but his proposal to pay shareholders 1 % as dividend and hand over to the company one third of all the State revenue , which amounted to over $210,000 a year was not attractive to the shareholders of the Company and the bid was turned down in February 1894.

While the negotiations between the Company and Charles Brooke were in progress in 1893, Aoki visited London to investigate the feasibility of the purchase and enumerated the reasons for the purchase that North Borneo would absorb the growing population in Japan and the geographical position might contribute significantly to Japanese commercial and military purpose in the future.

Aoki mentioned that the British Government was unlikely to present any obstacles to the purchase of North Borneo from the Company because the sale would not be a great loss to them and Japan unlike other European countries was not in competition with Britain.

In 1893, the Company unofficially offered North Borneo to the Japanese Government for 500,000 pounds.

On the 7.11.1893, Aoki Shuzo who was in Berlin sent a cable to Munemitsu Mutsu:

"Are Imperial Government inclined to buy Territory of North Borneo Company for value within 500,000 pounds in order to make Japanese colony thereof. If so I will negotiate with British Government regarding cession of its sovereig

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And cue literally the dumbest reason to start the Bruneian Civil War, which would one day lead to the North Borneo Dispute
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