WORTH THE COST
SINGAPORE BASE
INDIES A DANGER POINT
(Received February 3, 2.10 p.m.)
February 2. ■ The Singapore correspondent of the "Sunday Express" says that Burma and India will be in danger if Japan enters the war. The territory which promises the most immediate rewards for Japanese financiers is. the vulnerable Dutch East Indies.
There is an ofivious threat to Malaya but the Singapore, Base will justify the millions spent on it.
Japan is facing ruin. She has enormous debts, while the army is making increasing inroads on the national reserves of wealth.. Only a ; sudden turn of the wheel can bring fortune to the Japanese and, -like Hitler, they may be preparing to gamble all on one desperate coup. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 8
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