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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,
1941.-PAGE 11'
DETAILS OF MIGHT OF WEATHER REPORT
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SINGAPORE FORTRESS:
SECRECY RELAXED
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 2.-Despite Singapore's increasingly portant position in the empire defence scheme and the prospects that the United States fleet could be based here in the event of a Far East emergency, officials today relaxed their" "hush-hush" policy regarding the great naval base and permitted corres- pondents to reveal some of the details of the defence might of the fortress.
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Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 m., Feb. 11.
Barometer (at sea level), 30:14 Ins.
Temperature, 61 F.
Humidity. 88 per cent.
Wind Direction, E.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 5.
Temperature: Maximum yesterday
..72 F
enang furn
Temperature: Minimum last night
60 F. Ramtall for 24 hrs.
today.,0.02 ins, Total rainfall since January 1st There are more than 17 miles of 4.08 ins Should the British war fleet over move to eastern waters, it would squnu 0816) 53 (jam sa 'sano4s Against an average of, 185 ins. find at Singapore every facility au jo supply a 101 Sunset tonight, 0.18 p.m. which it requires, from an exten- of cranes, engines, trucks, lighters Sunrise tomorrow, 8,57 am. sive harbour, safe from enemy at- and motor vehicles.
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4 p.m., Feb. 11, tack to docks where the biggest The repair yard provides facili-Barometer (at sea level), 30.02 ins. battleship could be accommodated pes for the repair and overhaul Temperature, 63 F. for repairs and overhaul." Nothing of ships with a minimum of delay. Humidity, 86 per cent. has been forgotten, and a British There are two docks, one the King Wind Direction, 0. warship would be as much "at George VI graving dock, one of the Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. home" at Singapore às at Devon-higgest naval docks in the world, Maximum temperature, .63 F port. Portsmouth or Scapa Flow.
and the other the floating dock Minimum temperature; 60 F. which was brought out to Singa- Rainfait, nil. Dore in sections
DEEP WATER ANCHORAGE
when the
HUGE DOCKS
work The admiralty harbour extends on the base was in its early all the
the Johore stages. way down straits from the causeway which juins the island of Singapore to'
These docks can take the largest the mainland to Changi point, en
King the east coast of Singapore, in- battleship adoat, and the cluding the mouth of the Johore George VI dock is extensive enough river. This provides more than 20 to accommodate the biggest ship water an- in the world. The floating dock, square miles of deep
ts which was built in Great Britain, than enough chorage, more
Neez.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
From 19 to 18 Feb. 1941.
HIGH WATER
LOW WATER
Fong
Month.
Date of
Kong
Standar
Height.
Bong
Kong
Standard Time
Height
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accommodate the entire British and towed 8,000 miles to Singapore Wed. 12
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"The base itself, several miles; the straights at Seletar, covers anı area of four square miles. Tower.
The King George VI graving Sat. 15 a all are the masts of ing over
dock required excavation of several E'S one
Sun nava radio station and
16 goes up the straits the, jib of a million cubic yards of mud and the foundations,
Mon. 17 massive crane comes into view and earth before the sides of the huge floating dock which go down deep to hard rock,
could be provided. It was a gigan- Thes. 18 tic undertaking, requiring severa years to complete. It is actually
can be seen,
The facilities at Singapore base comprise a stores and victualling and yard, repairing yard, rest recreation facilities for personnel, medical facilities, and headquarters
for the command.
SEAWALL AND WHARVES Thousands of yards of seawall and wharves have been built with'
berths tu accommodate several warships at the same time where they can take on fresh stores and
Saturday,
18th Feb.
fuel.
HUSIMI MARU
Wednesday,
26th Feb.
SAIGON
PAKAR MARU
Sunday,
23rd Feb.
(Cargo accepted for Saigon).
Thursday.
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.
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RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
* NAGATO MARU
KOBE &
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TATUTA MARU
ATUTA MARU
NITTA MARU
Cargo only.
Friday,
13th Feb.
21st Feb.
Tuesday,
2th Feb. Monday, 3rd Mar.
Tuesday,
11th Mar.
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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers.
Buliding, 5th Floor.
Nearby are rows of store
be
1,000 feet long, 130 feet wide and ships using the base has not been 35 feet deep at the entrance. Once neglected and the fleet shore ac- a.ship is berthed inside the dockcommodations сад house thou-
the
the water can be pumped out in a sands of men. They
are among very short time, leaving the under the best designed tropical barracks water structure of the ship exposed the world. Sport grounds are for repairs.
not far away while a modern, swim- Large blocks of workshops stand ming pool is within a stone's throw
They of the men's quarters. within the dockyard area
Apart from facilities for ships, are equipped with the latest type machinery for dealing with any the naval base also provides head- naval repair job. Many European quarters for the command, with engineers and overseers.
and rapid, communications with sheds capable of holding all the thousands of Chinese, Indian and admiralty in London and naval many and varied stores required Malay artisans are employed by the stations and ships in all parts of for u targe feet which may
the world. Highpower radio sta- operating at sea for weeks on end admiralty to these shops.
FLOATING CRANE
tions ensure the maintenance of without an opportunity of return-
ng. tu port for supplies,
Within the dockyard is a crane naval communications and in ad- The victualling yard includes; which can lift out of a warship adition, Singapore is well known as center for tele- extensive air-cotiditioned and cold complete, gun or boiler which may an important
Smaller cranes are graphic cable communications. storage-chambers in which perish need repair.
Arnong the newest buildings at able provisions are kept. Enough provided for removing other equip-
ment needing attention and there the base is the headquarters block other supplies for food and
150-ton floating crane which houses the commander in at is also a small town are kept in store
which was brought out to Sinza-chief of the China station, the rear the base
fortunate in being pore soon after the floating dock admiral of Malaya, and their staffs Singapore is
and the superintendent of situated close to the oilfields of arrived.
1% In each workship there are tra- dockyara. Borneo and Sumatra, but it
"TO RELIEVE H.K. necessary to keep within the base, velling cranes and railway nes hand, stocks of all run into the shops to enable heavy or near at
When, with the growth in the which can be drawn upon imme- equipment to be taken rapidly into
It that part of the dockyard where size of capital ships and a cor- diately when the need arises. has often been estimated that all the repairs needed can be made. responding increase in
fleet sufficient to maintain the
Everything in the dockyard has quirements of the British fleet In for six months is kept in Singa- been built to last and to stand up the way of refitting and repairs, it became obvious that the naval to the strain and stress which would be placed upon it by war-dockyard at Hongkong could not time operations in this part of the be expected to continue to fulfil the role of the principal British naval base east of Suez, Singapore was chosen for its central, situa-- tion. It stands at the crossroads
pore...
water
the
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WATER SUPPLIES Great mains bring the supplies to Singapore and in the world unlikely event these cease function there are. actually within to the boundaries of the base, two against aerial attack, whether by of the East, commanding the trade reservoirs which hold sufficient high water for emergency supplies.
to Buildings have been constructed give maximum.. protection
explosive or incendiary routes between India and the Far bombs. Every workshop is cate East and between the Far East In the armament depot at the against blast and sprinters, as se- and Australia and New Zealand. base are magazines holding stocks cure as an air raid shelter in Great
The base has arisen on a site
of all types of naval shells, mines Britain which will stand anything which 20 years ago was a vast ex-"
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and torpedoes. They are con. structed in order to withstand direct hit by. 1 heavy bomb These magazines can supply any man-of-war from a 15-inch gun battleship to an escort vessel.
but a direct hit. For vital points, of course, completely bombproof construction has been provided.
swamp.
panse of mud and mangrove The transformation has been brought about by the skill of civil engineers, reinforced by doctors and other The provision of rest and recrea- the advice of tional facilities for, personnel of specialista.
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