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SINGAPORE:
Until and unless Singa- pore falls, there can be no realisation of the Japanese dream of Asiatic domina- tion. Britain's island for- tress, "crossroads of the world," thus stands to-day as a symbol of Nipponese frustration. Yot to take Singapore would be the hardest task so far faced by the children of the Rising Sun.
High Hurdle To Asiatic Aggression
By
MAJOR JAMES ROSS
In the "Christian Science Monitor"
Thinking elements in Japan know this, Reichs- fuchrer Hitler knows it. strikes inland; both meet at when veteran Japanese divi- Whether or not the hot a junction some 50 miles ions which could be spared heads of Japanese military east of Malacca, for the from China gathered at Hainan and naval hierarchy appre final 120-mile run to Singa-
between war
Island.
By the time for the next more Japanese, sen power would, it' was hoped, control the South- China Sen and the Gulf of
Commander-in- Chief
Charged with the duty of organising the defence of Singapore and all British possessions in the Far East is Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Pophum. who has declared his full confidence in the forces und resources at his command.
ciate the fact remains to be pore. scen. Upon their decision- Possible Bases affected as it must be by
Two possible bases for a the Oriental value of "face"
Singapore, threatened by more son of several thousand men, land expedition against the Siam. The existing garrison of so rarely grasped by West British base suggest them immediate investment, could plus a mobile field force on the erners-may rest the dif-
selves-Bangkok, capital of spare but a very small force for mainland of several divisions, ference to the United States Thailand, and Songkia. The mobile defence and delaying ne- with auxiliary weapons. The and peace former of a sizeable port, tions in the Malay States. Too R. A. F. will operate from bases Should the Japanese High the latter a shallow har läte then for British reinforce not only in Malaya but also ment, Unfortunately for the from Burman and Indian bases Hongkong Telegraph. Command fail to grasp it, bour. The mountains offer Axis that bright bubble has entirely out of reach of Nip-
national Japanese catas- shelter to any Japanese ad- burst. Even the small French ponese land or sen attack. trophe may well result.
vance along the eastern force in Indo-Chinn has lately The land strength which Even the limited naval shore, with but five tenuous received reinforcements to back Japan can spare from China experience of Japan in-'passes; Mergui-Pach Puri, up the 5th Regiment of the will probably consist of not THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph dicates that a fortress can- starting in Burmese terri- Foreign Legion--up-to-date the much more than five divisions under des which it tizielly copyright not be taken by direct as- tory; Ponga-Chai-ya, Corah- major opponent of Thai offen (100,000 men) with auxiliary bans ordinance 1010. Such sewa na sault from the sea, as hap- Ligor, Telibon-Ligor, and
Wednesday, July 16, 1941.
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the indication "UI 14 received in United Press Aaxociations, who
sive movement.
the gun to date of publication by pened during the Russo- Lungu-Songkla, the last Singapore's Position
sorve all rights and forbid republications, arrangement
VALUE OF SYRIA
SUCCESS
the Indian Ocean,
weapons. Japanese advance air bases must be situated in Thai- land, an ally, and also in Indo-
ether wholly or in part without previous Japanese War at Port four in Thai terrain. Each The island of Singapore is 27 China; for these latter Japan Arthur. Blockade by sea trail over the hills is a miles long by 14 miles wide. may still have to fight a pre- and investment by land are potential threat to the rail- The city, on the southeastern liminary campaign,
Unopposed by an aggressive indicated. In contempla- way. More important, Bri- corner, is open to the Straits of tion of such joint action tish air power, based on Singapore, through which all defending force, Japan in 1904, THE signing and ratifying of Japan may make a grave Rangoon and Moulmein in deep-draft traffic must run be- with complete command of the tung Peninsula, invested Port the armistice in Syria between mistake, for there is a the north and Singapore in tween the South China Sea and sea, landed armies on the Ling- General Dentz's forces and the certain illusory parallel be- the south, dominates the
But to bombard the city hos. Arthur and at the same time by offensive movement fought Allied armies brings to a satis-tween investment of Singa- entire line of communica-
tile warships must come within
successful battles factory end a campaign, neces- pore and the 1904-05 cam- tions within these respective range of the British modern several sary but distasteful. It has paign on the Liaotung radii of action.
long-range batteries of 16-inch against inept but stubborn Rus- afforded the British no pleasure Peninsula. Unless analysed Easier To Defend
and 18-inch guns or the island, sian armies outside the fortifica-
tions. covering all approach by water. to take up arms against a for carefully, this similarity mer ally, while the position of may lead to erroneous con- In the final 350 miles of To reduce these batteries, heavy No Finesse General de Gaulle's men who clusions.
approach, where the penin- mobile artillery must be landed
on the mainland. The sole con- The operations began in May: had to fight their own country-
sula widens in Malay States' nection of the island with this they were concluded in January men can only be described as
territory to a 200-mile front, mainland is the lately completed of the next year after a most distressing. Happily the con-
the mountains are split into Johore Causeway, on which expensive series of frontal at- flict has been brief-34 days to of land action is a rather south ridges, with a number Singapore railway.
In both cases the theatre three definite main north passes the line of the Bangkok- tacks. Manoeuvre, in the ac- cepted strategical sense, was en- tirely lacking in the Japanese narrow-peninsula._on_the_
of spurs running helter-The vital-dockyards-of-the effort. Military authorities to sidered it incumbent upon him- tip of which rests a sup: skelter. In this area an at- great naval base lie on the day in close touch with Japanese self to offer the strongest resist posedly impregnable for tacking force would have north side of the island, where tactical and strategical practice
tress.
declare that There the resem- most trouble provided the also the air base is situated. As
the Japanese last resort, were the causeway General Staff still lacks any The Malay defenders had mobile troops to be blown up, blance ends.
sense of military finesse. The
be precise-though the very fact that General Denfz con-
ance possible, naturally meant a considerable loss of life and destruction
Difficult Terrain
ассева to
Defensive Strength
to property and peninsula, split lengthways to oppose it. Hence the Singapore island would have to hammer-blow frontal attack, re- livelihood chagrin upon fare carries in its wake. Even range, is crisscrossed later- landing in the Singapore Tebrau. That is, the final stage accepted docuint
area of Australian troops. of any attack on Singapore must
include a close range river- With such historical back- in this connection, however, ally by a number of water-
Up to that time the Japanese crossing, an element missing ground, and, for the first time in there is room for congratula- ways. The interior of the
plan of leisurely infiltration into from the Japanese assaults on Nippon's history, against an tion inasmuch as that the Allied country is largely unex- French Indo-China, to be Port Arthur 36 years ago. opponent of superior military troops made every effort to con-plored; a rank, equatorial followed by concentration at
mentality to balance lack of numerical strength, Japan's fine attacks to essentially milijungle, in which military Bangkok, accompanied doubtless by providentially "coincident"
southern expansion stage is set. tary projects and objectives, manoeuvres would be re- screams from That minorities in
Summing up, to take Singa- In the wings stands the United and the historical sites ofduced to a series of discon- the Malay States for freedom pore to-day Japan must carry on States. The propaganda or- Syria remain comparatively un- nected minor actions.
oppression à joint naval and land opera- chestra is tuning up. Will the typical Axis procedure-seemed tion, which can be brought to curtain rise? If the show goes touched.
The west shore of the well on the way to fruition. successful conclusion only after on will the last curtain ring The pattern was plain, to be control of air and sea be ob down with it the last vestiges of peninsula is a morass of scen ever since the first troop tained. The defenders will Japan's dream of Asiatic do- developments it is rather more mangrove swamp. The east movement several months ago, mass a full war-strength garri- minance? difficult at the moment to ashore- where Japanese f praise the value of the Allied success in Syria that it would have been a month ago. Then, there existed
an immedinte
In the light of recent war
movement would be--is a succession of sandy beaches, backed by pleasant forests, threat to the Suez Canal via but, at times lashed by the Levant, and evidence was monsoons. From the main- in abundance that the Nazis land the neck stretches some were making full preparations 900 miles to Singapore, with for assuming military control of the French mandate. Gen-the Bangkok - Singaporej eral Maitland Wilson's armies railway running down struck quickly and forcefully through Siamese territory with the results as they are along the east shore to known to-day. In the meantime Germany turned her attention Songkla (Singore), whence to Russia and away from the it branches. One line loops Middle East, though it is ob- around the west coast of vious that Hitler, if he can sue-
ceed on the eastern front, is not the Malay States, the other going to allow the present situa-
remain undisturbed.
tion in the Mediterranean to while the Allied forces are pro- vided with a pivot upon which - It is, therefore, highly prob- they can operate freely and able that the full value of the effectively either to the north, Syrian conquest will be realised enst or south should occasion FUND in the future, if and when the demand. But the more im-. FUND Nazis attempt to gain control mediate importance of the Syria RUNI of the eastern Mediterranean. success Is that the Nazis have FUND Turkey has been presented with bean deprived of highly sirate
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