"NOT DOWN AND OUT"
COMMANDER MARSDEN 'DEPENDS BRITAIN.
(Keceivod 7th' January, 10 a.m.) ] .' SYDNEY, This Day.. Commander Marsden, in an address tdj the Millions Club, said that what sur« prised him when he arrived in Aub» traliawas to find people still arguing about the Singapore ba3e. ."All we seek to do there,"'he said, "is. to build a dry dock, capable of holding the largest battleships and aircraft-, carriers in the fleet. Singapore is th<j strategic centre of the world's, seas." ',
After blowing a full gale of con* demnation against- Communists and all their doings, he added:' "People think' England is" down and out, but you judge a man by the way he comes out for the next round, and, believe me, England will never bo knocked out.""
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1927, Page 7
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