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:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*[httphttps://nlirepositoryarchive.nvli.inorg/details/handle/123456789/1478 dli.ministry.02352 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya''] by Hermann Norden 1923. Link to a pdf, DSpaceArchive.org, Ministry of Culture/ National Library of IndiaCollection.
*[https://archive.org/details/tidemarksbeingso00toml ''Tide Marks, Being Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923''] by H. M. Tomlinson 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures''] by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition 1915. Archive.org.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 ''Singapore Patrol''] by Alec Dixon, 1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''', sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): ''Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya''. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19351206-1.2.71.aspx Review] ''The Straits Times'', 6 December 1935 gov.sg [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17223115 Review] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (NSW) 14 Dec 1935. Searchable, but not viewable on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001134916 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library]. [https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books. For all editions of this publication to 1940, see [[Indian Army#Historical books online| Indian Army - Historical books online]].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iDRGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA164 "Malaya 1938-1939"] page 164 ''Memories of Malaya'' by June Meyer 2007. Description of a rubber estate in the north of Malaya. Google Books.
*[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d33bd0c3-28e9-4875-8b27-9cd12f353e49.aspx ''Handbook of the Automobile Association of Malaya, Dec. 1939''] eresources.nlb.gov.sg
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Malaya and Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sunsetofempirein00tayl/page/n5 ''Sunset of the Empire in Malaya: A New Zealander’s Life in the Colonial Education Service''] by T.K. Taylor 2007. He was appointed by the Colonial Office and worked in Malaya 1946-1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 19221941, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], Hong Kong, Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership those outside the Indian Empire, including the Straits Settlements, is available on [[Findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].
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