A NEW GIBRALTER.
SINGAPORE NAVAL STATION
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LONDON, Sept. 26.—Arbitration at Singapore refers to the purchase by the Strait Settlement (not the Imperial) Government, but the scheme is subject to the hitter's approval. It is stated that the extension of the naval base would be iar simpler when the colony owns the docks than in the ease of private or dividend control. SYDNEY, Sept. 27. Captain Stokes-Becs, the officer ,'u charge of Garden Island, speaks enthusiastically of the new naval base at; Singapore. The object is, be states, to obviate any danger to the British possessions, Australia, and the Eastern waters by a possible block in the Suez Canal. Its importance to Sydney as a naval base is likely to bu greatly enhanced.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1905, Page 4
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