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SINGAPORE BASE

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Project of £30,000,000 Protects British Commerce: Part of Fortified Triangle

A little island, similar in size and shape to the Isle of Wight, -dominates the East, Its name is Singapore, and it belongs to Bri-

tair.

Singapore-gateway to the Far Fast, guardian of the wealthiest

trade route the world. has ever known--is the steel hand in the velvet glove of Britain's diplomacy In the hemisphere k guards.

A seven-year programme, involve ing about $30,000,000, ands in a few weeks time, reports the "Sun-

-day Express." It has converted Singapore from a weakly defended centre of international trade into, one of the most powerful naval bases in the world.

This programme was started seven years ago, when a mammoth floating dry dock, 855 feet long and 178 feet wide-big enough to alte a 50,000-ton battleship, right out of the water-arrived at Singapore

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1935.

NO PRIESTHOOD

FOR WOMEN

Still feeling

STAIRCASE TAKEN TO AMERICA

Masterpiece By Gibbons

London, Dec-9.

In the same year Malaya export- ea 6û per cent of the world's tin. In 1934. also, Malaya exported £5,100,000 worth of petroleum pro aucts, although ne all is to be found in Malaya. It came to her from Dutch Borneo, from Sarawak,ropolitan Museum of Art New

British protectorate in Borneo,

and from Sumatra,

And it came to Malaye because at the up of the peninsula there is an island, at whose southern base is the port of Eingapore, which, little more than a hundred years ago, was the dream of an English man called Raffles,

One of the most famous stair- cases ever carved in England has been taken to the United States, and is to be exhibited; in the Met-

WHEN RAFFLES WAS SNUBBED street. No

CHURCH COMMITTEE'S:

REPORT

Dean Of St. Paul's Dissents

Langon, Dec.

After nearly four years coo-

alderation. the Archbishops Com- York. It is one of Grialing Qib-ssion, on the Ministry of Women has rejected the claims of women bone's best-known masterpieces,, and was originally at Cassiobury admission to the priesthood of Park, Watford,

the Church of England, it "The Daily Telegraph under Matthews, Dean of St. Paul'a dis

On one member, Dr. W. R.

seum acquired the staircase against the priesthood of womer. stands that the Metropolitan Musents. The two views for and October, 1932; from the London:

are as oi.o firm. of Edwards and sons, Regent-")

For announcement, was made at the time, owing to "the Stamford Raffies was an extra-museum's polley of disclosing de ordinary young man, He left quisition only school at fourteen and went to ready for public exhibition

when they are work as an extra-clerk at India House. At thirty he was chosen by nights and

The staircase consists of thres Lord Minto, Governor-General of which ran along the upper gallery a long balustrade, India, as his chief civil adviser in at Cassiobury. This and the stair

is expedition to Java

case balustrade are elaborately carved from solid oak the pat- tern taking the form of acanthus

More than 60,000 men can stand on its submersible deck, and it took,

And when on its conquest and eight Dutch tugs three months to annexation in the same year-1811 tow it east from Wallsend-on-Tyne.Minto returned to Calcutta, be Its official name is Dock I left Rames as Lieutenant-Governor Dock VII, which is slightly larger, in charge of the island and its Is at Malta, Britain's naval base in'

5,000,000 inhabitants. the Mediterranean,

Malta needs fortified Gibraltar to i back it up, but Singapore, in its seven-year-plan, has combined the functions of both and established, the security of Britain in the East for many generations to come,

Dock, IX, was moored off Sele- ter, which, carrying out the com-

parison with the Isle of Wight, is Singapore's Ryde.

Near by, 2,800 acres more than four square mines of land have been cleared for two of the best equipped naval and air bases in the world. The navy yard has store and fuelling wharves, a 2,200-foot quay, a 935-foot graving dock, a power plant, caissons, pumps, a 150-ton crane;-machine-and-plate shops.

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British Government, under Caster- But, with priceless stupidity, the eagh and Canning, traded, sold, and gave away all that we possess

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conquests to the Dutch, and when there. They returned their

Rames protested he was subbed.

In 1818 the tide turned in his Lord Hastings, Minto's favour.

successor, Impressed by Rames in sistent warnings that the Dutch would rise to pre-eminence over the British in the East, sent Rames in search of a foothold in the area which the nutch were intent on sealing up

A few weeks later, worried by the vacillating home Government. Hastings changed his mind and wrote to call him back,

But Raffles had gone off like a The 600 acres of military and bullet from a gun, and before

scrollwork.

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proximately 1677, and its excep-. The staircase dates from su

tional quality was commented on by John Evelyn, the diarist

"There are no grounds of principle from which it may be

concluded that women, are in-

capable, because of their sex, of! receiving the grace of priest- hood, of of exercising the priestly functions." (Dean of

against

"St. Paul's).

After full consideration, we do not feel able, in view of the past history and present cond tions of the Christian Church. to recommend the admission of women to the priesthood. Call ather members of the Commis- sion).

been the dwelling of Offs, King of published to-day favours con-

Cassiobury Park is said to have

On the other, and the report. the Mercians in the 8th century.siderable development of the office estate of the Earls of Essex. It was for many generations the of deaconess, The Commissioners

state:

The mansion contained a núm-

"In our opinion it should be re- ter of magnificent Gibbons car cognised that a deaconess is in vings. When it was sold by pri- Holy Orders, and, that the grace Vate treaty in 1922, much of the of orders is bestowed, upon, het by Woodwork went to America. Sub-the Holy Spirit through the laying scquently the house was demolish-on of hands with prayer, ed, and the park is now occupied ORDINATION FOR DRACONESSES by a housing estate.

HAUPTMANN'S FATE

"This arder should not be re- garded as equivalent « with - the diaconate of men but rather as the one existing Holy Order fo women “It should, however, - carry: with

recognition of the deaconess as one of the clergy. A service for the ordination of a

alỗng, with the other ordination services, in the Ordiziali. We are of opinion that the sunctions of the deaconess should include the right by authorisation of the bishop:

naval airfield once primeval jun-Hastings perined his recall Raftesi technically powerless to reprieve desconers should be included

gle, have steel hangars workshope. barracks, and a broad concrete rathp, for seaplanes,

Bouth of these is a great wireless station which enables the Com- mander-in-Chief to talk each day with the Admiralty in London He can talk, too, with Richmond, near Sydney, and with Darwin, in North Australia; both of these are air bases of the future.

bad planted the Union Jack at

Bingapore with his own hands.

Singapore grew. Here more than 440,000 people, of whom only 7,600 reared a are Europeans, have colony which has become the key to the wealth of the East.

NEED FOR BASE· RECOGNIZED

The need for a strong base in the Middle East was officially recogniz bridge a village has been convert-1921 Australia and New Zealand ed into a garrison town with arti-aggressively informed the confer- lery, engineer, and infantry bar- ence that the war and the Pana- racks. The hills are fortided with ma Canal had shifted the world's anti-aircraft and long-range bat-stage from, the Mediterranean and

the Atlantic to the Pacine

At Changi-Singapore's Bem-ed at the Imperial Conference in

teries.

'W, F." Massey, Fremler of New Zealand, tried to put the problem tactfully,

Changi and the rest of Singapore can shell the district round the island within a radius of twenty miles-enough to prevent Any “Supposing Japan had been on enemy squadron passing through the other side during the war," he the narrow navigable channel. said. “I do not mean to say that Singapore is the seventh largest this is possible...but...que result port in the world. Through it would havo; been certain. Neither passes--and "must pass all traffic |Australis, nos. New Zealand wopli between East and West,

have been able to send troops to The trade route that leads }, the front,” through the Sues Canal, past This sealed the waument. At Aden, past India, to the Malay the Washington, Naral Conference Archipelago, where it can turn 1822 between Britain, United north to China and Japan, south to Australia and New Zealand, is one of the greatest routes in the

work."

On It, every day in the year, ploda £290,000,000 worth of British ships and cargoes.

Trenton, NJ., Dec. 27. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey to-day said he believed he was

Bruno Hauptmann, sentenced to die for the murder of the infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh.

should, the Court of Pardons re- fuse Hauptmann clemency, the Governor said, he could do nothing, for although reprieves had been granted in recent years the Con- stitution limited his power to re prieve to a period of ninety days after conviction.

Reuter

people as the merchants of Singa-

pore.

FLOODED WITH THEIR GOODS, More Important still, they flood- ed the 'Straits Bettlements with their goods to such an extent that au May 7, 1934, the British Govern- ment decided to fix quotas on all Crown colonies for foreign cotton and rayon textiles.

To read the, servicns of. Morn- ing and Evening. Prayer and the Litany, except for those portions reserved to the priest, and to lead in prayer;"

To-Instruct and prezad, except. in the service of Holy Com

munión; th

To offcisie at the churching

In the absence of the priest to baptisa infants, and

Where there may be special needs in giris' schools ́ ́ and women's colleges; tol administer the chalics" st

The report also expresses the opinion, that lay, women, should be eligible for all such offices and duties in the Church ag are open to laymen, inalading, that of lay- These quotas were based on the reade average textile imports of each with regard to the admission of colony from 1827 to 1931, and they women to the priesthood, the Cut Japanese Imports into the Commissioners hold that tradition colonies by 57 per cent.

Janá opinian. in the Church favour Yet this was not, the end of this an exclusively male priesthood, States, and Japan, Britain shap-trade war.. Her goods are inferior and that this is based on the will doned the Anglo-Japan treaty for to those of the West, and the wall of God and is, for the Church to- mutual defence in the Pacine, and of international tarifs makes it day, a sufficient witness to the insisted upon an adequate base at imposable for her to hope to break guidance of the Holy Spirit" They Singapore, where feet could put into the Western marketa Conse-helleva further, that for me up for repair and fuel,

quently Japan looks to Asia as the branch of the Church to admit In 1924 Col. Sir Maurice Hantes, market she must develop.

women to the priesthood would in- In the "Archipelago these ships the one permanent Cabinet ofacial

She has attempted to counter, volva disloyalty to that fundament- sail through an international zone and one of the most powerful men Singapore by toying with the idea al unity in witness and tradition in which, before the rise of Binga-connected with it. stopped at or a canal across the Malay penin- which exists in the present state- pore, they were unprotected and Singapore on his unofficial world sula, high above Singapore, and of divided Christendom."

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entirely in Siamese territory. - Eew worden engaged in Shurch He returned to London, and said, vestigation has convinced Japan work, it is stated desire the The Archipelago is a vast region hopeless unless the existing fort micar

In effect, that a naval base was now that this would be unecong-į priesthood.. of dangerous channels, a maze of acations were strengthened to

So, the future of Singapore islands and treacherous reefs.. It withstand a first-class naval attack hinges on the intentions of Japan. has one main navigable channel,presumably by Japan or Ameries, Singapore, with its guns, its air and and commanding that channel is this was the birth of the seven-naval bases, its causeway seross Singapore.

year-plan which ends this year. the strait of Jphore to the main 22 Nearly 7,000 ships call at Binga-Even this is to be carried further, land, is not a threat to Japan

pore each year, bringing a king's by lak singapore, Darwin (Austra- ransom in trade. From the Malay lal, and Hong Kong into one great Archipelago comes nearly all the tortined triangle. world's rubber. The peninsula and On Singapore will hinge a mo- some of the Dutch islands have darn defence system combining sea the greatest fin, mines, on earth..

On the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo in oil

exposed..

MAZE OF DANGEROUS REETS

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The Malay Pentamula controlled by Britain, juta out into the Archipelago, and is a part of it. It gross/International business in a good year is £230,000,000 in a lean year is little less than £113,000,000, and the balance of trade is nearly always in Malaye's favour

KEEPING TRADE ROUTE OPEN

The Dean of St. Paul's, in ex- pressing dissent, says there is:

"A most important theological principle which ought to lead us to the conclusion that the open- ing of the full ministry of the church to woman is required by

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It is designed to block a mova | nature. The circumstance that which Japan mag decide to make. some personalities are associated Then in a war Britain could not, with masculina organisms vand attack Japan from Gingapore. It others with feminine is simply ir is nearly 4,000 miles from Bings revalants and there is no more para to Tokyo, and the nighting justification for discriminating range of a modern neet is about against Jews or men with red 1,500 miles, of a bombing squadron | hair.”

The Bishop of Carlisie (D. H But, if Britain could block a hos Williama) was chairman of the During the war, fapan started | tlle fleet at the Malay Archipelago, 1 Gamer

The members inv her textile industry on a compett- the trade route from Perth, Aus, Loruder':

Hope of Blackburri tion war that revolutionized the trails, to Colombo and sues would

(South trading system of the world I be kept open.

All this is very acceptable to Hol land, America, and France, whose interests, in the East are protected by Bingapore. But to Japan the | 1,000 miles. ( plan is far from acceptable.

The Japanese not only made ↑ «And<" t ack Ferth without i The biggest item on the list la i thelt goods more cheaply, employ-passing through the Archipelago, a rubber. In 1934 Malaya exported ed cheap labour, used more em.|Leet from Japan. would have to lan two-thirds of the world's rubber clent machinery, but they sold make a detour of nearly 5000 miles Des 677.000 tons out of her total exports their gooda

without having round the souli of 1,017,000 tons

to pay fat commissions to, auch la without a base for refuelling, Tebs

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