THE SINGAPORE BASE
REVIVAL OF THE PROJECT. JAPANESE PRESS COMMENT. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) TOKIO, November 8. (Received November 10, 1.30 a.m.) The announcement that the British Government has revived the question of constructing a naval base at Singapore is being widely discussed in the Japanese papers, nearly all of which regard it as inevitable. The Asahi Shimbun, while expressing the opinion that the construction of the base may lose much of its former significance in view of the probability of a second disarmament Conference, declares that if constructed it is bound to complicate the situation in the Far East as Japan would be compelled to join in such a Conference with a reservation. The Yomiuri Shimbun says that the advest of the Conservatives to power, has drawn the attention of Japan to defence problems in the Far East. The Chiewo Shimbun, though admitting that the fortification of Singapore does not concern other nations, is of the opinion that such a plan would nullify the Washington Convention and excite competition in armaments.
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Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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