CAPE ROUTE
TO BE PUT IN STATE OF DEFENCE
NAVAL BASE AT FREETOWN (United t*te»s Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right 1 (Received 13th January, 9.0 a m.) LONDON, 12th January. Britain is putting the historic Cape route in a state of defence as an answer to the probable closing of the Suez Canal in time of emergency, and also because it is important, in view of German interests in the Azores and the Canaries to have a bigger base on the African Coast, says the Naval correspondent of the “Herald.” The scheme accordingly involves making Freetown, Sierra Leone, into an important naval base, and in addition the development of Capetown, where harbour reconstruction, extensive fortification and the mounting of 15inch guns has begun. The work will cost £15.000.000. Freetown is the capital and seaport of Sierra Leone. British west Africa. It lies about four miles up the Sierra Leone, the best harbour in West Africa, and is connected by railway with the interior.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 January 1938, Page 12
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