"TONGUE IN HER CHEEK”
JAPAN AT NAVAL PARLEY BRITISH ADMIRAL’S VIEWS MUST HAVE SINGAPORE BASE PROTECTION OF DOMINIONS ronlled press Association -13 v Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, May 1. Sir Rioger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet, declared that Ja-panj attended the naval conference- with her tongue in her cheek. “I tell you as a naval man that Japan is untouchable,” he added. “We must have a base at Singapore to protect Australia and New Zealand, and I thank God we shall have it in two years’ time. “The battle of the navy must be -fought out on the Downing Street front ao-anrst the Treasury and against the Government,” he said. “The air force, army and navy must be brought up to a proper defensive -standard.” The first Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Ayers-Monsell,.. in reply, to, a question in the .House of Commons, said the policy of the Admiralty'was based upon the conclusion that a battleship would be able to defend itself against all methods of attack, including attack from the air.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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