BASE AT SINGAPORE
NAVAL REPAIR WORK PARTIAL RESTORATION (2.30 ami.) LONDON, Sept. 23. The Singapore naval base will not be functioning to pre-war capacity for many months. It is at present under the control of 30 officers and a few hundred ratings of Royal Marines. It is estimated that within a few months the repair facilities will be restored to 30 per cent of their peacetime efficiency. The King George V graving dock, which is capable of accommodating the largest battleship afloat, is intact. Senior officers consider that the 5000ton floating dock scuttled in 1942 before the surrender, raised by the Japanese and again sunk by Allied bombing will never be of much use again.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21830, 28 September 1945, Page 3
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