HONGKONG TO BE RE-FORTI-FIED.—One of the modern quarters of tho city of Hongkong, a British Crown Colony and naval station in South China, which is to have increased fortifications as part of the re-armament scheme. This city, which is to become almost a second Singapore, will have three new forts and doubled artillery defence, in addition to a new air base. The total population approaches three-quarters of a million.
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Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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69HONGKONG TO BE RE-FORTIFIED.—One of the modern quarters of tho city of Hongkong, a British Crown Colony and naval station in South China, which is to have increased fortifications as part of the re-armament scheme. This city, which is to become almost a second Singapore, will have three new forts and doubled artillery defence, in addition to a new air base. The total population approaches three-quarters of a million. Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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