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A LESSON TO THE GOVERNMENT

has ever known is the steel hand in the velvet glove of Britain's diplomacy in the hemisphere it guards,"

A seven-year programme, in- volving about £30,000,000, ends in a few weeks' time. It has converted Singapore from a wenkly defended centre of inter- national trade in- to one of the most powerful nával bases in the world.

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The mammoth floating dry dock at Singapore. It took eight tugs three months to low it from England.

This sealed the argument. At The Malay Peninsula control- led by Britain, juts out into the the Washington Naval Conference Archipelago, and is a part of it. in 1922, between Britain, United Its gross international business States, and Japan, Britain abandon- in a good year is £230,000,000; ed the Anglo-Japan treaty for in a lean year a little less than mutual defence in the Pacific, and £113,000,000, and the balance of insisted upon an adequate base at trade is nearly always In Singapore, where a fleet could put Malayn's favour,

up for repair and fuel.

In 1924. Colonel Sir

Maurice The biggest item on the list, is rubber. In 1934 Malaya exported Hankey, the one permanent Cabinet two-thirds of the world's rubber- official and one of the most power- 677,000 tons out of her total ex- ful' men connected with it, stopped ports of 1,017,000 tons.

at Singapore on his unofficial world

In the sani year Malnya ex- tour. ported G0 per cent, of the world's He returned to London and said, Un,

In effect, that a naval base was In 1984, also, Malayn exported hopeless unless the existing forti- were strengthened to to back it up, but Singapore, in its £5,100,000 worth of petroleum fications Beven-year-plan, has combined the products, although no oll is to be withstand a first-class naval attack functions of both and established found in Malaya. It came to her presumably by Japan or America. This was the birth of the the accurity of Britain in the East from Dutch Borneo, from Sarawak,

a British protectorate in Borneo, seven-year-plan which ends this Even this is to be carried for many generations to come.

Dock IX. was moored off Seletar, and from Sumatra.

further, to link Singapore, Dar- which, carrying out the comparison with the Isle of Wight, ie Singa- at the tip of the peninsula there Is an Island, at whose aouthern base pore's lyde.

And it came to Malaya because

weakening in its attitude that NOTES OF THE DAY Near by, 2,800 acres--more than little more than a hundred years

VETERAN COMMANDERS

Lord Jelllene's recent

four square miles of land have

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win (Australia), and Hongkong into one grent fortified triangle. On Singapore will hinge a modern

defence system combining sets and

acting on his own initiative in number of the surviving

of the Great War. 150-ton crane, machine and plate work as no extra-clerk at India able.

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equipped naval and air bases in man called Rames.

ALL this is very acceptable to Samuel Hoare's activities in

the world. The navy yard has

Holland, America, and Franco, 'death store and fuelling wharves, a 2,200- QTAMFORD Railles was an extra- whose interests In the East are Paris. It is not, however, to be presumed that Sir Samuel was makes a farther reduction in the foot quay, a 935-foot graving dock,ordinary young man. He left protected by Singapore. But to com-a power plant, caissons, pumpa, a school at fourteen and wont to Japan the plan is far from accept- seeking to evolve, in collabora-manders

House. At thirty he was chosen During the war Japan started tion with M. Laval, plans for Britain's contingent consists of shops.

Lord Beatty, Lord Allenby, and The 600 acres of military and by Lord Minto, Governor-General her textile industry on a competi- securing-an-end-to- the Italo Sir Ian Hamilton Or the Sir naval airfield, once primeval jungle, of India, as his chief civil adviser lion war that revolutionised the Ethiopian dispute. Nothing is Ian Hamilton, who is 82. is the have steel hangars, workshops, bar in his expedition to Jaya,

trading system of the world, clearer than the fact that the oldest. Lord Allenby is 74. Lord racka, and a broad concrete ramp And when, on its conquest and The Japanese not only made Foreign Secretary was carrying Beatty, who was only 43 when the for seaplanes.

annexation in the same year-1811 their goods more cheaply, employ- on the conversations with the war started, is 64. France has South of these is a great wire-Minto returned to Calcutta, he ed cheap labour, used more efficient knowledge of the Government, Marshal Petain, Marshal Franchet. less station which enables the left Raffles as Lieutenant-Governor machinery, but they sold though he appears to have over General Gouraud. All the great

D'Esperey, General Castelnau and Commander-in-Chief to talk each in charge of the island and its goods direct without having to pay stepped the limits. The bruntRussian

day with the Admiralty in Lon- 5,000,000 inhabitants.

fat commissions to such people as Army commanders

don. He can of the criticism has, unhappily, dend. General Denikin, who sur-

with inik, too,

But, with priceless stupidity, the merchants of Singapore. Richmond, near Sydney, and the British Government, under More important still, they flooded fallen on him, and it is this cir-vives, was a corps commander in

with Darwin, in North Aus

Castlereagh and Canning, the Straits Settlements with their cumstance which has had the re- the war. Germany, who has

tralia; both of these are air

traded, sold, and gave away all goods to such an extent that on grettable result of his handing General Ludendorf, supplies the bases of the future.

that we possessed there. They May 7, 1934, the British Govern- in his resignation. Sir Samuel joldest survivor in General Macken-

Changi-Singapore's Bem- returned their conquests to the ment doelded to fix quotas on all has been made the victim of Hen. was 80 on December bridge--a village has been convert-

Dutch, and when Raffles pro- Crown colonies for foreign cotton circumstances arising from G. He prides himself that ́ bia

ed into u

tested he was snubbed. garrison town with

and rayon textiles, walst-line has never altered since artillery, engineer, and infantry mistake in tactics, Defending

In 1818 the tide turned in his These quotas were based on the the British efforts to reach a seventy years ago.

he ordered his first uniform nearly barracks. The hills are fortified favour. Lord Hastings, Minto's average textile Imports of oach basis for discussion of peace, Mr.

with anti-nircraft and long-range successor, impressed by Raffles' colony from 1927 to 1931, and they insistent warnings that the Dutch cut Japanese imports into the Eden says it is right that the attempt should have been made,

Changi and the rest of Singapore would rise to pre-eminence over colonies by 57 per cent. ean shell the district round the the British in the East, sent Raffles Yet this was not the end of this although he admits that the task

Of the five Red Army officers who island within a radius of twenty in search of a foothold in the aren trade war. Her goods are inferior was an almost impossible one. have just been made Marshals of miles enough to prevent any which the Dutch were Intent on to those of the West, and the wall But the British public has never the Soviet Union, two. Egoroff and enemy squadron passing through scaling up.

of International tariffs makes it for one moment taken the standTakhacheffski, served as officers in the narrow navigable channel, A few weeks later, worried by impossible for her to hope to break Into the Western markets; Con- that all possible avenues towards the Imperial Army. Tukichoffski

the vacillating home Government, reaching a settlement should not was in the crack

Hastings charged his mind and Bequently Japan looks to Asin as the be explored; there has not been, excellent violinist and makes his largest port in the world, just

Regiment. He is, beshles a soldier, QINGAPORE

market she must develop. Is the seventh wrote to call him back.

But Railles bad gene uff like a and there still is not, the slightest

own violins. In the war he was exceeding Hongkong last year in bullet desire that

from n prospects taken prisoner and it was while tonnage peace

gun, and before should be jeopardised by failure he was in a prison camp in Ger-Through it passes-and must pass had planted the Union Jack

cleared and entered, Hastings penned hía recall Raffles to take advantage of every op-many that he became a Socialist.all traffic between East and West, Singapore with his own hands. portunity offering. The alter-On his return to Russin he found natives are altogether too grim the Bolshevists auspicious and re-through the Suez Canal, past Aden, 440,000 people, of whom only. 7,600 Singapore grew. Here more than to warrant precipitate rejection luctant to avail themselves of his past Indin, to the Malay Archi- are Europeans, have of reasonable plains. If there services, until Trotsky insisted that were a prospect of devising a military efficiency was more im- pelago, where it can turn north to colony which has become the key

China and Japan, south to Australia to the wealth of the East, nortant even than pure proletarian and New Zealand, is one of the Isolution which would be accepta descent.

Last year Singapore exported So the future of Singapore Voroshiloff,

hinges on the intentions of Budienny ble to the League and the two and Blucher were all N.C.Os in retest routes in the world.

goods valued at £66,300,000 and Japan. Singapore, with its guns, partics to the dispute, there the war. The first, as Commissor

imported £55,000,000 worth and Its air and naval bases, Its cause- On it, every day in the year, most of that pala commissions to way across the strait of Johoro to could be no possible criticism of for War, is, next to Stalin, the most plods £200,000,000 worth of merchants.. the Paris talks. Actually, how-notable personality in the U.S.S.R.: British ships and cargoes.

the mainland. Is not a threat to Japan. ever, there has not been the the second, with his luxuriant least ground for believing that mustache and fondness for vodka, sall through an international zone the Middle East was officially which Japan may decide to make.

In the Archipelago these ships THE need for a strong baso in It is dealgned to block a move the efforts could at this juncture still a characteristic Cossack ser in which, before the rise of Singa- recognised at the Imperial Confer. Even in a war Britain could not prove fruitful. Italy is obvious-geant-major; the last, after a good pore, they were unprotected and enco in 1921.

number of ideologien

Australia and New attack Japan from Singapore. It ups and ly in no mood to consent to

exposed. (Continued on Page 5.)

Zealand aggressively informed the is nearly 4,000 miles from Singa- terms, even as

basis for

The Archipelago is a vast region conference that the war and the pore to Tokyo, and the fighting discussion, which' would 'not in-

of dangerous channels, a maze of Fanani Canal had shifted the range of a modern fleet is about fringe Ethiopian rights and of cut-and-dried schemes. No

islands and treacherous reefs. It world's stage from the Mediter- 1,600 miles, of a bombing squadron integrity. That being the case, harm has actually been done, as and commanding that channel is

has ono main navigable channel, ranean and the Atlantle to the 1,000 miles.

Pacific. the drawing up of a definitet happens, save that Britain has Singapore.

But, I Britain could block'n' Premier W. F. Massey, of New hostile fleet at the Malay Archi- formula at this stage was fore- lost the services of an able

Zealand, tried to put the problem pelago, the trade route from Perth, doomed to failure. The British Cabinet Minister. There is, in pore each year, bringing a king's "Supposing Japan had been on would be kept open.

Nearly 7,000 ships call at Singa- tactfully.

Australia, to Colombo and Suez. Government should have been fact, this much to the good ransom in trade. From the Malay the other side during the war," ho And to attack Perth without aware of that fact. There may that the Government has been Archipelago comes nearly all the said. "I do not mean to say that passing through the Archipelago, not have been the slightest in- shown unmistakably that public world's rubber. The peninsula and this is possible tention of forcing the, plan on opinion expects it to live up to its some of the Dutch falanda have the one result would have been certain, make a detour of nearly 5,000 way but by a fleet from Japan would have to Ethiopia or the League; the vital promises. The lesson is one greatest tin mines on earth: Neither Australia nor New Zealand miles round the southern tip of fact is that the moment was not which should be taken to heart! propitious for the presentation by the nation's leaders.

The trade route

that leads

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reured Д

She has attempted to counter Singapore by toying with the iden of a canal across the Malay peninsula, high above Singa pore, and entirely in Siamese. territory. Investigation has convinced Japan now that this would be uneconomical.

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On the Islands of Sumatra, Java, would have been able to send Australls without a base for re- and Borneo is oll

troops to the front."

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