SINGAPORE BASE
DANGER DEMOTED if EFFECT OF COMPLETION NECESSITY TO EMPIRE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Feb. 0 The completion of the Singapore base removes a potential danger to Australia and New Zealand, as well as to India and Malaya, says the Manchester Guardian, in a leading article. Without Singapore no battleship could be sent to the Pacific in an emergency without grave danger of loss. No other position could be found •with greater strategic strength, while less threatening to other Powers. There is not a country which can reasonably complain it has been intimidated, and, on the contrary, only a country seeking to conquer the whole of the Last could find in Singapore an obstacle to its unnatural ambitions.
Australia and New Zealand are not alone in feeling that their defences are inadequate for present needs, and concern is growing in French Indo-China, the Dutch Fast* Indies and elsewhere.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 11
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