SIAM CANAL STORY
RIDICULED BY JAPANESE
SINGAPORE, April 20. The story that Japan is contemplating the construction of a “Kiel Canal” in the East through the narrow neck of Siam, near Victoria Point, 6QO miles north of Singapore, is ridiculed here. It is regarded as impracticable on the ground of cost, apart from the fact that England and France certainly would not be agreeable. " The story suggested that the canal would bo Japan’s answer to the Singapore Base, offering a new route to the East. This is answered by the ques-tion,-“What would Britain be doing?” The canal talk is a revival of a story five years old.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 2
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107SIAM CANAL STORY Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 2
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