SINGAPORE BASE
SECURITY IN PACIFIC CHECK TO AGGRESSION [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received February 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 9“The completion of the Singapore Base removes a potential danger to Australia and New Zealand, as well as Indo-Malaya,” declares the “Manchester Guardian,” in a leader. “Without Singapore, no battleship' could be sent to the Pacific in an emergency, without a grave danger of loss. “No other position could be found with greater strategic strength, while less threatening to other Powers. There is not a country whiclj can reasonably complain that it is being intimidated. On the contrary, only a country seeking to control the whole of the East could one day find in the Singapore base an obstacle to its unnatural ambitions “Australia and New Zealand are not alone in feeling 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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