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MELBOURNE, May 2L—Rear-Admiral Cresswell says: ‘The choice V Singapore as a navail base i- a wise one. It will be of greater importance the security of Australia anil New Zeeland than any on their own laud, as it will have at its mer.;y the line of communication of an enemy’s fleets passing south. In other words, Singapore and its Grand I 1 loot will have to he eaten up before Australia and Now Zealand can be seriously menaced. A fleet in Sydney Harbor would seal the fate of the latter as a commercial port.”—A. and N.Z Cable. . LONDON. May 20.—A Government patrol raided a house in Dublin to arrest a man who was wanted, (but he escaped through a window. The troops lired, and wounded a girl and four men (two seriously).—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 10
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