THE SINGAPORE BASE
COMPLETION OF CONTRACT
STATEMENT AS TO USE
LONDON, April 5. In the House of Commons the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, informed Mr. Louis Smith. (C.) that he hoped the Jackson contract for the Singapore naval base would be completed in September and the remaining works four years after that. , It would, he said, be used as a fuelling, storing, and repair base. There was no indication, that Britain would permanently station a squadron, there. The base was within the limits of the China command.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 7
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