NAVAL AFFAIRS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 May 1923, Page 5

NAVAL AFFAIRS

I PACIFKJ BASE. I

PK^EIOT&U BRITISH INTERESTS

aIT CABM PRESS ASKGBI.AIF3O*- -COPYBIGHT LCftffJOß, M*x 3' , j The Morning Post, in an ©ditorisw/ says: "The decision of the Govern-| ment to develop a naval base at Singapore, which, for us is a strategic key ' to the Pacific, is heartily applauded The base is not a challenge or a threat ' to any Power. It is a mere recognition ' of our great interests in the East, in- ! terests inseparable from our duties to Australia and New Zealand. "As for the argument that the base is a flouting of the Leafiue of Nations, it would b& well to consider what the League of Nations would be worth if ! the naval strength of its most promm- : ent member were reduced to nullity." j