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DEFENCE PROBLEM. LONDON'S SAFETY OR SINGAPORE! DOCK.

(BY HERBERT SINEROTHAM, A STUDENT OF WAR"

MONDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1993.

THE NORTHCLIFFE DIARY. [FROM HIS BOOK, MT JOURNEY ROUND

THE WORLD."

When you look at a Canadisu audi- ence, it is difficult to say whether it is or is at American. When you look at ua no mistake Auckland audience there is About it. It is English,'

It is six weeks since attention was called in this place to our defensleashess in the air.

Lord No other word will do.

New Zealand is the land of British Birkenhead was strictly accurate in the family mysteries. Owensions heirs, 23 debate of Wednesday last who, he said! titles and fortune, hay en unearthed here Bat the New Zealanders certainly that France had more than three times as out like titles, because they have had jmnuy acroplates as this country, bat the some very bad specimens of titlel people disproportion in machines"available for her, hyen now each town has its tie

coterie of well-born remittance home defence is much greater than this., those who live upon doles from England."

of our aeroplanes | abroad that hus. Franer, and for the defence of London or of our industrial entres the disproportion is nearly one in live. This is detenerlesstatus comparable to that of Belgium towards Germany in

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Today Australia is menaced alunest. as we were in 1914, but sh has not, gob

since the facts were set forth xeral things have happened The Air Minister ins udnytted them and has submitted a new programme which will in two years LTD. bring down our interiority to cue in four a single arsenal.

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the machines available for one defence. This reduction of the odds:

So gruss merely surves to advertise them. Sas he scandal that the Defence Com. mittee of the Cabinet began to sit on it, and after sixteen sittings has now come to the conduston, Lord Salisbury told us on Wednesday, that a considerable in crease in the Air Forer would be neces [sary.

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Australen is at the moment at work. man s parnaise, It is no place for public school boy, putes he conues to dermie, apgintuens,`

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That it should require this remarkable

The Chinese bave output of brain puwer to reach a conclu sion in obaich makes one almost despair. - spret for the English, They say, It is as though someone Were to announes ish big number one mua. Very that, thanks to the wonderful spyglass," he but rather prunt, had been able to see the" dome of St. Paul's from Waterloo Bridge.

DOCKS FIRST!

But that is not all. While the Cabitat | Committer of Petence was working to this

forcible-fechte, conclusion.

Sir Samuel

Hoare ale a speech which was in effect an appeal in the public to hold up his hasis, like those of Muses, to custre a On that very victory for commotisense. night, while this victors was still duubtful, the Caminos vared the first instalment towards eleven uitons for Dreadnought docks at Singapore. We are still await- ung the best inst.dment towards the bare pussiinding of defending our hearths and bones against aerial attack,

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The Japanese are superficially polite, and have the art of leg-paling enrrival to

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The Japanese are complex peuple, poets, fond of tradition, peite, brave, and in many ways very inefficient. They are spying very imitative, and very quick to learn.

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Some Chinese have a curious habit of rolling two hard, brightly polished wal nut shells in their right Land, is a sedative, like smoking or knitting."

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Let us he careful not to exaggerat** the case against these proposed ducks at is a place of immense Singapnes. It strategie impetuner, commanding the access, as it does, to both Ching and

A Chinese idea of a holiday is to Australia waters. There may arise,

hang out sore little banners with the sooner than we think, occasion for inter word Happiness, ou them, and the holt- vention in Chinese waters. It is conceiv-day-maker believes he is happy." able that Japan may pose to entertain designs on China which the United States The Chinese are the most uupunctual. and oursives might wish to oppose and people I know except the Americans." Germany Ty her utmduction of Bebbes ism into Russia leu show u thirt there wav Jure way of pathing nation hors dr cunthut than by knocking it on the head, The proet of developing Singapore is undibtedly popular in Australia, which always professes fear of Japan, and, mor over, Due experience in the last war showed that open harbours are of no us as bases for the operations of Bets.

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When you see a telegram from Japan, don't believe it. Any kind of telegram from Japan is likely to be untrue."!

FRIENDSHIPS NOT UNESTRANGEARLY !

It will be id tint France is friendly," and that there is no danger to be fired from the air over these islands, however great her preponderance. To that arg

its a sublicent answer that while there is plenty of evidence of our Friendli to France, there is no widene. what er of France's friendlinss to us.

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head Wednesday's debut, are not; apparable and friendships are not un strangeable."

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THE ADMIRALTY'S CASE The Admiralty' case may be put some- thing like this: You reprouched us for not inting a protected base for the Graud For in the late war. We are not going to incur that same reproach should there

What works is there any guarantee that France's be trouble t the Bacine." have to be made and harbours fortified, friendliness, if it exists now, will endure for three months or theme gears. **Ex- you cannot wait until danger maturemities, as was well said by lord Birken-

You say you must act years ahead. dreadnoughts are thsolete, and that you could achieve the results more easily and more surely by bombing hostile ships Front

Bue even if it were true that nations the air ar by submarining them. Do you know that it took 1,500 dd rounds from friendly will be always friendly, and sink on though we should make it our fixed rule Start's 13-in. кинч Spee's cruisers at the Falkland Isles forever to parsue France with protestike How many bombs from the air. then, do tions of affection which leave her notice you suppose it would take to sink a Herably cold, that would not in the least affect the Government's duty in regard to home of batt rships! Besides, battleships defence in the air or any other element. can be made invulnerable to submarines, As for America, the you suppose that she could operate against Japan in defence of China or the Philippines across Pacific? She might have cause to welccm a lase and n ally at Singapore."

Such is the Admiralty case, and though there are immensely strong arguments on the other side, there is something in it, that our weakurss in the air has for some There may very solid reasons for time been an embarrassment to our foreign giving serious attention to Singapore, politics.

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We have a one-Power standard at sen even we have one-Power standard in the in relation to the United States. Euless air we have no a renmorially good chance of defending ourselves, and therefore our reign po.tey is not wholly our own. Bat why mince matters! It is tetoricus

even if we do not share the Admiralty's CONTINUOUS WHERENT THISLING WANTED. faith in Dreadnoughts as the deciding But. factor in future rival operations. inviting as these speculation maybe, ther not the least necessity to indulge them.

Slowly, these things will be put right. But that is not enouga. It is monstrous version of realities can happen once, it nuppen again amid circumstances that auty be of even greater danger. it is as tear as can be that, there is no continuous Grant everything that the Admiralty coherent thinking about the problems of Nor can there be until defence might urge on behalf of Singapore, and science,

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The Cabinet Committer of Defence is may, if you like, for the sake of argument, admit the second proposition? What then supposed to do this work, but quite happens? Why, it is the domestic, the obviously it ignot doing it; if it were, we immediate, the non-contentions danger, would not have these recurrent scandals. that is neglected or postponal: the for. Before these sittings on the air staufals viga, the remote, the contentious, the began, how often had it met since the hypothetical larger that gas the money. end of the war? Did it ever meet at all! A single Ministry of Defence, which Lord Haldane called this perverse prefer. ence. It is lunacy, and, rightly con-used to be advocated, is out of the ques- sidered, it is more alarming even than tion now; the work must be done by a Committee of the Cabinet. But this the figures of our inferiority in the air.

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