SINGAPORE BASE
-MR BALDWIN’S REPLIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 25. Sir Baldwin, replying to Mr Lambert, in the House of Commons, said the Singapore naval base was recommended by the Admiralty to enable modern battleships to be docked for repairs. The recommendation had been endorsed by the Committee of Imperial Defence. Mr Lambert: May it be assumed the Foreign Oflice was not consulted? Mr Baldwin: I should not think that. I do not know whether it was specially consulted, but the Foreign Office is represented in the Cabinet. Mr Shirley Benn : Has your attention been directed to a statement by leading Japanese statesmen that, if Britain is to look after its interests in the Pacific, the building of the Singapore base is the natural sequel to tho end of the British-Japanese naval alliance? , Mr Baldwin : 1 have not seen it, but it seems a very sensible statement.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1923, Page 2
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