SINGAPORE BASE
KEY TO THE PACIFIC IMPORTANCE TO BRITAIN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WILIJAMSTOWN, August 9. Lieutenant Gary, of the United States Intelligence Department, at the round-table discussion on the British Commonwealth, said that the most .significant aspect of the modern international era is the shifting of the world politico-naval centre from the North Sea to the Pacific. Singapore is the key to the now British naval strategy in the Pacific. This base is a factor on which it is most likely Japan did not seriously count at the Washington Conference. Professor ■ Heaton, of Queen’s University, .Canada, said that Canada had shown little interest in naval defence because she is comparatively safe from naval attack, but Australia anc New Zealand,-because of their isolated positions, felt a great dependence en the British Navj.
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Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 5
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131SINGAPORE BASE Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 5
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