NAVAL POLICY.
CAUSING GOVERNMENT ANXIETY. THE! SINGAPORE BASE. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, July 18. Nothing is causing the Government greater anxiety than the naval policy. It is now understood the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald is going, to America in the autumn to confer with President Hoover. The date and place are now being discussed through diplomatic channels.
The “Daily Gbroniale” says the fate of the Singapore base is unlikely to be decided before the naval negotiations. The question of dropping submarines is presenting a difficulty of another kind, arising mainly from strategy. Lessen naval powers refuse to sacrifice what they consider economical! defence. In regard to the building programme generally the Government is on the horns of a- dilemma. It is anxious to cut down yet it realises to reduce the programme means less work at a time when the Government- is most anxious to increase' employment.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 July 1929, Page 5
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