STRATEGIC STRONGHOLD
THE SINGAPORE USE NECESSARY FOR SAFETY SF ENURE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 9. (Received February 10, at 10 a.m.)' “ Completion of the Singapore base removes a potential danger from Australia and New Zealand as well as lndo» Malaya,” declares the ‘ Manchester Guardian,’ in a leader. “ Without Singapore no battleship could be sent to the Pacific in an emergency without grave danger of loss. No other position could be found with greater strategio strength while less threatening to other Powers. There is not a country, which can reasonably complain of being intimidated. On the contrary, only a country seeking the whole of th* East could one day find in Singapore an obstacle to its unnatural ambitions, Australia and New Zealand are not alone in feeling that their defences are inadequate for their present needs, but concern is growing in French IndoChina, the Dutch East Indies, and elsewhere.”.
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Evening Star, Issue 22879, 10 February 1938, Page 11
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149STRATEGIC STRONGHOLD Evening Star, Issue 22879, 10 February 1938, Page 11
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