LIBERATION HAILED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25301, 7 September 1945, Page 7

LIBERATION HAILED

SO?,ER THANKFULNESS building up or malaya CR«d. r, m p, m .) LONDON, Srpt. fi Throughout the entire CommonWealth tiie liberation of Singapore l —a symbol of the great work done in Malaya—«-jjl he hailed with sober thankfulness, gays the Times. To the Japanese its possession signified the ®ost dramatic triumph of Imperial arms since the capture or Port Arthur, yet It mar be doubted whether they would have survived the attack that was about to be launched against it by the Allies. The circumstances of its fall in 1912 showed that it could not stand when sea and air supremacy no longer rested T 'th its defences. The prosperity of Malava. says the paper, Mas built up under British Authority. There the people of many races dwelt in peace, building up a civilisation unique in tropical regions *°r the high standards of social service and civic weil-being. The conquest of disease and the provision of medical relief were an example to the world *&r surpassing the better-known achievegpnt« in the Philippines and the ■runaittu Canal rone. Tsow the building of Afalay* can be resumed. J