TALKS IN SINGAPORE
AIR CHIEFS CONFER SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. The Chief of the Australian Air Staff,. Air-Chief-Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, who has arrived in Singapore to confer with the British Com-mander-in-Chief in the Orient, Air-Chief-Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham, will also tour Royal Australian Air Force stations in Malaya. The official announcement says Sir Charles’ presence is another example of the close co-operation between Australia and Singapore in defence measures. “It is particularly important, in view of the rapid expansion which has taken place in the Air Force in Australia in recent months,” it adds. Sir Charles Burnett said he had come to Singapore to ‘discuss matters of mutual interest.” It is stated authoritatively that Singapore’s Air Force, which consists mainly of Australians, will soon be five times stronger than it was before the war. This is part of a plan to transform Singapore into “one of the most strongly defended citadels in the world.” It will form the pivot of a defensive axis which wil include Australia, New Zealand, Hongkong and India, and guard the Far Eastern Empire and the trade routes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. I
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 5
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