SINGAPORE BASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 9

SINGAPORE BASE.

IN ADVANCED STATF. EFFICIENT AIR FORCE. CLOSELY-GUARDED SECRETS. "It is easier to get into lira \c II than into thi' Singapoi,- lias.." :1 . 1 Mi. )• Tennent, of \Va\crlc\. who telium-d l.\ the Nitlgara today 111 •-1 pin In. - !«■. months ill Silica pi 'i c. "I -aw ..II liia! a -t I i.t a lid I lie sin \ci 11.1 lee -o he ~ 1 1 e\ en e\ 11a \a I 1 e-ei \ e mill a 1 c 11 ••' ■j 1a 11 ted an 1 >|• j>• >1 lull iI \ lit in-pe. tin ■ 1 > -erii't- of the ha-c," lie added. "There \'. a - \ei\ nm- i• 11 •1a Me arim'i at t lie lia-e." sa 1,1 Ml. I ill \ ! : ~ pi II- .111 t line Ihe del, lie, s ll.nl t lie a|! I" ai a nee •11 low mound-. I' 11 I \ I, ,1 In low . gua riled lIS all el lia t e la \. i - n! eoliei etc a nil cart It. wel c Ihe -. .i e| ihlenee-, mullll nin- and s11j11• 1 - .ii a mighty 11ct wot k ot ii nllei i 11111111 ion pa 1 I men I - a lid gu I lei ies. In a le.n' time Ihe Woi U Would have le.nlie.l -11, 11 all nils a need st ate Iha t I iiei e Would i .. 110 sig || ~| t lie fol II e- -e- li.. 11 ■ |i, ground. an. I the wln de in id .- Would ple-iut a 1111 it■■ iin a pp. aia n. . I he I•iii Ii I ill"), at t lie I.a -e <• ■ \ . I a■■ eln ii moll- <i iea . i- aid Vi . lennenl \ • the pi e-elit tiMl e a Ile• 11 e 11.1., 11 - n win I - ot lia ITacks wei e lie in V I'lo h'll I I lliacllilll' shops wel e i~| o-- a I lie . were lathes on w liieli a pi op, 11, -1 .- na i , lor a ha 11 Ic-lnp coiihl In- to n .1, Everything on Scale. Even I hill- w a.- on a hll■_■ ■ ■ al. 1~. CIiUM'S Ul'll' t I"»• llK'lhlmll|i..\\r. all'air-. then strength li.-hil' in,,, , tor lilt ill the hca\,\ guns, ca i 111. ■ .11. engine part-. The two dock* W, re pi ~lia 1• I \ tI. largest ill tile world. The gia,.ii-j ,| (1 ua- est limited |,\ Mi | i iin. nl i,, I. (KMIt t lollg a Mil .itII t deep I I Ilci'iilillliiidate aln.nl -i\ enii-ei- alt I same tune. The ni i I. i e wa ■ ... and niht living wa- i-.. , as to all lad Ii 11 le alt cut I majority of the "plane- wen- 1...m1... I here was u nai\ el Ii hi- I \ e. pi i pp. ci\ il air iiase, w iici e Ihe lin pel ia I \ - w ays living lioat - we u, pl.t, : oM i lmuleil and relit ted aft ci en. ; Hi;; lit. Mr. Tennent sa id t hat the Dm , h h.i 1 practically a. nioiii ip. d \ oi shippu.-,. i, •la Ml. At ita t■.\ ia lie -a w L'.'l ship . . which all llllt one Well' Out'll, I lie ..l|, lx'injr 'iernian. At Singapore, ~t ~u. there Were nilliieiou- \e-i-el— thin.- 11l Hritifh Hag. Admiration of the po|i, ing of s,n , pore In Indians, iiio-iU >ikh-. wa- , pressed hv Mr. Tennent. " I hcv \% .. . very smartly turned out and iwlien., cllicient," lie r.aill.