HUGE GUNS AT SINGAPORE
HEAVIEST IN EXISTENCE “DISCLOSURES” BY GERMANY DEFENCE OF NAVAL BASE ACCURACY NOT DETERMINED gy Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec 10 p-m. London, March 26. An official German service organ reveals that three 18-inch guns, the heaviest in existence, are now mounted in batteries at Changi, guarding the naval base at Singapore, whither they were shipped in 1928, says the naval correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Each gun is 59 feet long, weighs 150 tons and fires a projectile weighing 3300 pounds. The guns were originally destined for the cruiser Furious, but at the end of the war were mounted in monitors in order to shell German defences on the Belgian coast. . The German publication adds other details of the Singapore defences and says the hilly region of Changi is admirably adapted for battery sites. It is the headquarters of the entire defensive system of north-eastern seaboard of Singapore, comprising heavy artillery, mainly guns on railway mountings. It has been decided to complete the batteries by September at the latest. The Daily Telegraph comments that the accuracy of the German statements cannot be determined.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1934, Page 7
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