THE SINGAPORE BASE
QUESTION OF ABANDONMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, December 16. Professor Gilbert Murray, presiding at a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations’ Union, said it was quite clear that the project for the construction of a naval base at Singapore was now dead. The political correspondent of the Observer says that as the project was undertaken after full discussion in Parliament and at the Imperial Conference, it cannot be dropped except after consultation with, or at least proper intimation to, the Australian and New Zealand Governments
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Southland Times, Issue 19125, 18 December 1923, Page 5
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