SINGAPORE BASE
ITS VALUE EMPHASISED POTENTIAL DANGER TO DOMINIONS REMOVED [United Press Assoc iation-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 10th February, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 9th February. The completion of the Singapore "base removes a potential danger to Australia and New Zealand as well as to Malaya, declares the “Manchester Guardian” in a leader. Without Singapore no battleship could be sent to the Pacific in an emergency without grave danger of loss. No other position, adds the “Guardian” could be found with greater strategic strength, while less threatening to other powers. There is not a country which can reasonably complain that it is intimidated. On the contrary only a country seeking to conquer the whole East could one day find in Singapore an obstacle to its unnatural ambitions. Australia and New Zealand are not alone in the feeling that their defences are inadequate for their present needs, but it is concernnig French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, and elsewhere.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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