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TEN YEARS INSUNASVE Major-General Sir F. Maurier points out that at the Academy banquet Mr. Amery In an article contubated to the Daily presented the Admiralty vse bør the Mitiga- News, Mr. C. W. Darbishine, M., writes por Dock. He said: "We need the for wand view in regard to the strategie position. that Singapore is spoken of among the Malays as the navel of the Malayan Archi- With the suretler of thy Gertran Navy pelago. It was founded by Stamford Haffles! concentration in home waters has lost its mesning and we have now to consider a in 1915,

His faith was amply justled by | new ventes on the middle seas for the Navy It is perspeed to make i Far Fast results This sexthing mart of 350,000 mer- of the Empire

the lock chants and their ancillary trailers, with £9,500. We are to have the dock Tust is the some seventy diffrent tongas, men of rody in ten years' time, as an insurance

small against possible trouble.

Admiralty case, every cloer, race, and creci, only

The

reason why the dock is not to be proportion, of whom are British citizens, is to become a great mal base, with its fleet completed for ten years is because under "the Four Power Fact, we agreed with of battleships, cruisers, torpedo bits sa-i o of the treaties concluded at Washington, marines, its big guns, its acordeours and France, Japan, and the United States:--

That the rights of the signtory Powers aeroplanes and its protecting garrison.

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Aud! the ever-incrusing military mad naval terest and excitement in the years which intervene between now and the "next war, and when the "next war" is in full swing, its creiat decks, its piors, its shipping its warehouses, its offices, the result of

saithereens he blown base is te he built up: and in its build ing will set the example, will be a constant temptation and encouragement to other nations, to do likerise. Friends will be turned into foes, kalus, envious of the sto jamvide for the contingency of one of the Powers denuncing the Pact at the great prize which may be theirs if they end of that the only outpace us in extravagant schemes of enlless military and naval development.

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How ESTIMATES ROW.

We at Lold that the original estimate

A rebaved £11,000 has heen 2030000, This reduction reminds one of the sale season in our shops, but I can It what tise estimate is. Estimate, man Anyone who has been

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The Four Power Pact, thus provides. us with all the insurance we need in the Pacific for ten years, and we are really proposing to spend nine and a half mil

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an assured by an engineering authori- whi kuwa Singapore that every thing which it is proposed to do in ten years could 1 done equally well in tive years. Five years hence we shall in far better position to judge. Fisher's policy was always to wait till the kist moment, and than build quickly. The Ahmiralty is reversing that policy. Why I

be

bing in Mabeen with the huge is it afraid that it will not be able to:

asarciated as

dock and reclamation works in Singapore make good its case before a body competent during the last few years will support me to examine our problems of defence as a when I say that it is always the same old whole!

+Re+t at

story. The original figures are ཐན།

COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAI DEZESCE

beyond recognition or imaginatio

Now it happens that at this monent a write I have before me the weekly edition the Pinang Gaste of April it, just in sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial by int mail. It contains a very apt illustas Defence is examining the problems the tion of what I mean I see the head lines coordination of the fighting services, a with the entry of a rui Water Supply--Constant Variation of problems which, Estimates. Clarges against

inst G.M.R."

16.31R, third competitor for money into the field, stands for Mr. 1. A. Anthony, the general namely the Air Service, has become argent. of the Felerater Malay States. Why not wait until this committee has £9,500,000 in before spending

manager

Railways In 1917 the Federal Council apporte It is to take ten years to

of an estimate of $55,000 for if these ducks in the Far East. A vior and pipršine in Province Wellesley,

estimates for 1:21, the cost was

the

In February, 1915, the estimate was inervas delay of a few months cannot, then, he a ed to $1,000,00 In Framing the mutter of the first importance.

If, as I hope and expect, the machinery of the Committee of Imperial Defence is be to $1,200,000. Later, ju 1022, estirate was increased to $200, and improved, so that these questions can

and eighth estimate, as fully examined, not from the point of view of was $3,298. This was made by service or the other, but of all, and the acting general

but I notice we can be told the relative urgency of manger, that Mr. Anthony disputes this and states fach, we shall feel more satisfied that a that the total cost will not be more than now dock in the Pacific is essential to our $1,020,363 (to date), plus $724,137 (still to security; or, as least, more essential than be spent), equals $2,415,000, or some three our protection from air invasion. Why, times the original estimated cost. And then, be in such a hurry 7 therefore say that we masteckou on embarking on an expenditure at least. if we are to promed with the proposed scheme,

JUST A GAMBLE. N

And what is the justification advanced by the Admiralty for this gigantic gamble: We are told that it is in the nature of in another interational com

DIVERSE VIEWS.

Mr. H. S. Abrahamson writes from the National Liberal Club It is somewhat sur- prising that two members of Parliament who have taken a prominent part in the official and commercial life of that Crown Colony should held opposing views in regard to the desirability or otherwise of the establish- ment of a naval base at Singapore. League League of Nations, surate all "Safety First" and whos of Nations or Hict, that it.

not this a question of the we ask "

"Against when are we to insure!

blishment of primary safeguneds! house we are told that when we insure our against tire wedo not ask if there is to be not the simplest way to invite aggression The greatest fire. Exactly: we insure against a fire is to be unprepared therefer?

of fire, and the premium enthusiast for the Leagan of Nations are cause there is a risk

of the risk. If we the Dutch people, yet they are, sensildy varies with the

nature

it would seem, miupting were to live in houses we should hava

paper

extensive naval defence scheme for the to pay a big premiuo; if in steel vues, pra Netherlands East Indies, which are adj went tically nothing. So we are entitled to ask : Sel

is

yu

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Is

as the

what is the risk which necessitates a premium to Singapore, and, in fact, help to them in of 2010, XM), spread over ten years, in that strategic strip of water known

to the stupendous sums already - Straits of Malacca. Eleven milion pounds vided

for in the

Navy, Army, and Air way be high premium to pay for the safe. guarding of our Eastera inile routes yet Estimates. And there is no reply.

The development of

ultat intirety adingapore as a ravel proper instiranes is necessary. It is alr and magnify the to think that one of the world's greatest and usefulness of Hongkong, ports should be inarlequately defenden.

imalin of Hongkong even in statu

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Singapore Imse (costing In a letter sigued "E" in the Me" ceter 2000,000) gather, must chviously affecting the writer observes there is a

of power in the area governed

thi

by the Washington Treaty. To pretend that than the financial one. Penne in Tips Far more important aspect of the situation it does not is a travesty of the facts. To East and the security of British mierasts argue that it is inmaterial to the Treaty and around the Pacific depend we are

silagrant contravention of the spirit of the Treaty

nation cant

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