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The following article written by an expert on strategy and Imperial Defence, mainly for service men, should prove a valuable, key for the layman to the intricate problem, of the Sir Herbert Russell put the case of the man who does Singapore Bate, and why it is needed. not believe in a future era of peace and universal brotherhood." Ile considers that the strong man armed is less likely to be attacked then the idealist who puts faith in the "innate goodness of human nature," and particularly, one presumes, in the genus demueratic politician.
But suppose we found That the offcial announcemented Lord Jellicce around the world; covered. upon the subject of Singapore au gaze upon and muse upon the ourselves at war with a nation little while ago was bound to create changed conditions of sea power. possessing nothing but cruisers, drastic criticism of the Labour At that time there was much tension destroyers, and submarines. What Government was a foregone con between Japan and the United would be the necessity for a battle clusion, I will be remembered that States. Lord Jellicoe came to the fleet to cover the operations of the the First Lord of the Admiralty conclusion that the Pacific was the types of craft we should employ stated in the House of Commons vital naval zone of the future. Beagning them?
The types of craft we should em that all work actually in progress went so far as to recommend the upon the new naval base was to be establishment of a Pacific Fleet, ploy in warlare of this nature the would need a base quite as much as slowed down, and that, no new based upon Singapore, as
a battle fleet-more, indeed, for work would be undertaken until strategical hab" of the Eastern after the holding of the Five-Power Hemisphere. At the time this was theirs would be a more incessantly Naval Conference in Loodan in a perfectly sound recommendation. active role than the modern battle- January next. It is seldom that IWe had an immense Fleet on our ship has ever been called upon to find myself able to agree in any hands, and it was the business of all. They would suffer a lot of thing that the Labour Government the Admiralty to dispose of the bulk damage and want a lot of repair- 12.07 12.43 3 80 5,88, 9.44 7.00 7.227.34 says or does concerning the Royal of it to best advantage in the in- ing. They would demand a pro- must confess that terests of the British Empire. It digious quantity of fuel and am- Navy. But I this brief hiatus, to my mind, re was no longer necessary to main munition. It is possible that after a perfectly reasonable tain it in European waters, for the Fire-Power Conference we shall dreisien. A process of marking with all enemy sea power wiped out be confronted with the prospect of time" for two or three months can and allied ses power reduced to a naval warfare of a more guerilla de no harm in any case. And I very low pbb, there was no sort of character than we have been accus- aid the more reconciled to the pause objective to balance it against. But tomed to contemplate, with our by the fact that no attempt has been the Admiralty very rightly divined traditional vision of the mighty made to represent it as still another that the war-weary British people main armada lurking somewhere in were in no mood for the creation the background, ever seeking the op- to the United States, to **gesture who we have done just about of another great "haval zone." pertunity to deal the knockout enough of this sort of thing to earn with its suggestion of the next war, blow. In view of such a possibility. sicklied on the other side of the world.. So I think it is wise to mark time with be hearty contempt,
er with the sort of high-brow they decided against the creation the progress of work at the new stuff which moves Mr. Ramsay of the Pacific Fleet, but in favour Singapore base.
of the development of Singapore as Mae Donald to such fervour.
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"emerge IDAY Power Conference. But it is far from unlikely that one of the pro- pesals will be the abolition of the capital ship in her present form, and I regard this as a proposal which will have a very good chance of acceptance if it is made. As far As it is possible to judge from
On the Flank of Everywhere. external appearances, France and Italy would welcome it, and Japan There is no question as to the would be only too willing to agree. dominating strategical position of I do not profess to know what the the little island at the end of the feeling on this matter is in the Malay Peninsula. A battle feet United States Navy, but
based there would form a most effec- student of naval affairs it has al- tive covering force for operations ways seemed to me that the big by light forces over a wide area. It battleship is a big incubus to 4 lies on the flank of the way to every rountry situated at 1:ast 3,000 miles where, so to speak, a sort of Scapa from the nearest conceivable enemy: Flow of the East. The original and with no bases, at any rate of conception of the new Singapore Nelsons" Twelve years seems a operational value, against any con-hase was probably just a little tine pretty long time to look ahead, but ceivable enemy. In our own Navy, tored by what had become the in connection with naval progress there is certainly a "battleship strategical habit of the Great War. it is a flea-bite. It seems to me school," but I question whether it There was a tendency to reproduce only the other day that I witnessed is quite so confident as it was in its under diferent conditions the pie the formal opening of the Keybars trnets. On the other hand, thereture of the containing feet and the Extension Works, as we then called ATAMI:--
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MAMPEI HOTEL is becoming increasingly definite in found in all our great naval wars, were all encrmously impressed by its views.
but in none so complete as in the their magnitude. They were con- BEFPU Great War. Not only was it a structed for all time; to take any natural tendency; ten years ago it warship ever likely to be built was a correct tendency. In prin-One rather smiles now. in looking at shrunken locks-shrunken ciple it must always remain correct, their
Pacific Vital Naval Zone, This capital ship question has a very direct relation to the future of Singapore. Let us hark back to the conception of the scheme which is now gradually materializing at that place. At the end of the Great War the Admirally despatch
to making Dreadnought docks and basins and wharves, when there will be no Dreadnoughts to dock, 1 the Powers agree to the abolition of the capital ship, then twelve years hence the only ships of this category in the British Navy still remaining effective will be the two
Jn method it may become entirely only in comparison with the un- pbsolete. The value of a coyering imagined growth of the ship in the feet depends entirely upon the, exis-course of a quarter-of-a-century.
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