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HOME GOVERNMENT AND SINGAPORE BASE COST MORE TO ABANDON IT THAN TO PROCEED! United Press Assn Is* El. Tel. Copyright (Received May 2, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The Daily Mail says that behind Mr Alexander's answer on the Singapore base lies a story of the Government dilemma. It has now been found that it will cost more to abandon the dock in its present- condition than to proceed with the contract, which the Conservatives signed in 1928. The problem is whether to abandon the base despite; the cost or complete tlio harbor using it for com mercial purposes. The latter is the more likely.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11195, 2 May 1930, Page 5
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