CEYLON DEFENCE
BETTER THAN SINGAPORE I SIZEABLE REINFORCEMENTS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) * (Recd. 7.15 p.m.) Colombo, Moren 16.' Ceylon is now rlelcnr e-mind<’(l.i t There is no comparison between I Colombo, which to-ciay is a city with-l I out frivolities, and Singapore andlt Hongkong, regarding the persistence < of lhe social round. The hotels are!' no longer centres ot revelry. rJam. s! 1 have ceased and most sports grounds! are adapted to war sei vice. Racing < has been restricted. Defence preparations have been! progressively intensified as Japan’ I moved westward. Sizeable reinforce-! 1 ments from all services have arrived since Ceylon came under I lie Indian command in November. Troops are being trained for tropical wariare. | Civil defence measures are improved. The public generally are calm but not complacent. Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, the newiy -appointed Commander-in-Chief ot Ceylon, said that lie intended , to leave the civil administration 01 , the island in the hands ol the Gover- • nor and lus Ministers, if lie did in- ! terfere it would be only because it ; was necessary in the best interests ol 1 the Empire.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5
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181CEYLON DEFENCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5
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