CLEABING THE AIR
JAPAN AND SINGAPORE.
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JAPANESE OPINION
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Received Dec. 22, 11.25 a.m LONDON, Dec. ‘2l. The Sunday Times had an interview with Baron Hayashi, who said that no thought his country’s leaders recognised that the construction of Singapore base Avas inevitable. They realised that the plans had. been discussed many years ago The Avhole world must recognise that Britain possesses a scattered Empire, and her statesmen rightly regarded it as their duty to do their best in the interests of the Empire There was nothing more in Singapore than what might be called a sound commercial proposition. Baron Hayashi added that he was confident Japan’s relations Avitli America AA r ere never more promising.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 5
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