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A LESSON TO THE GOVERNMENT

A seven-year programme, in- volving about £30,000,000, ends in a few weeks" time. It has converted Singapore from a weakly defended centre of inter- national trade In- to one of the most. powerful naval bases in the wärld.

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

The Malay Penlasula control- This sealed the argument. At ted 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

-up for repair and fuel. Malaya's favour.

In 1921 Colonel Sir Maurice The biggest item on the list is rubber. In 1934 Malnya 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 at Singapore on his unofficial workl ports of 1,017,000 tons.

In the same year Malaya ex- tour. ported 60 per cent, of the world's tin,

He returned to London and said, in effect, that a naval base was In 1934, also, Malaya. exported hopeless unless the existing forti- were strengthened to Malta needs fortified Gibraltar

petroleum fleationa to back it up, but Singapore, in its £6,100,000 worth of seven-year-plan, has combined the products, although no oil is to be withstand a first-class naval attack This was the birth of the functions of both and established found in Malaya. It came to her presumably by Japan or America, seven-year-plan which ends this the security of Britain in the East from Dutch Borneo, from Sarawak, a British protectorate in Borneo,

year. Even this is to be carried further, to link Singapore, Dar- for many generations to come.

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

And it came to Malaya because

win (Australia), and Hongkong. which, carrying out the comparison

into one great fortilled triangle. with the Jale of Wight, is Singa at the tip of the peninsula there is an island, at whose southern base

On Singapore will hinge a modern pore's Rydo.

in the port of Singapore, which,

NOTES OF THE DAY Near by, 2,800 acres--more that little more than a kindred years defence system combining sea and

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It is a regrettable circumstance that, so soon after the return to power of the National Govern- ment, a crisis should have arisen resulting in the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare as Foreign Secretary. Consolation can, however, be found in the fact (Both Played by Jack Jackson's Orchestra). that the situation in no wise

Its official name Is Dock IX. betokens any retreat on the part of the British public from the Dock VIII, which is slightly larger, BD-237 Squibs-Fox Trot (Film "Squibs")

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the League system, Indeed, it in the Mediterranean. is precisely because there was a fear that the Government was weakening in its attitude that some of its supporters saw fit to

been cleared for two of the best go, was the dream of an English- nir.

ALL this is very acceptable to equipped naval and air bases in man called Raffes.

Holland, America, and France, voice their criticisms of Sir

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the world. The navy yard has Samuel Hoare's activities in

Lord Jellicoe's recent death store and fuelling wharves, a 2,200- STAMFORD Raffles was an extra- whose interests in the East are Paris. It is not, however, to be

to Japan the plan is far from accept- presumed that Sir Samuel was makes a further reduction in the font quay, a 935-foot graving dock, ordinary young man. He left, rotected by Singapore. But to acting on his own initiative-in-number of the surviving com- power plant, caissons, pumps, & school at fourteen and went

manders of -the Great War, 150-ton crane, machine and plate work as an extra-clerk at India able.

During the war Japan starteil seeking to evolve, in collabora-Britain's contingent consists of shops.

House. At thirty he was chosen tion with M. Laval, plans for Lord Beatty, Lord Allenby, and The 600 neres of military and by Lord Minto, Governor-General her textile industry on a competi- that revolutionised the securing--an-end-to-the-Italo Sir Ian Hamilton Of these, Sirnaval airfield, once primeval jungle, of India, as his chief civil adviser on war

trading system of the world. Ethiopian dispute. Nothing is Fan Hamilton, who is 82. is the have steel hangars, workshops, bar- in his expedition to Java,

And when, on its conquest and The Japanese not only made clearer than the fact that the oldest. Lord Allenby, is 74. Lord racks, and a broad concrete ramp

annexation in the same year-1811 their goods more cheaply, employ- Foreign Secretary was carrying | Beatty, who was only 43 when the for seaplanes.

started, Is G4 France has

South of these is great wire-Minto returned. to Calcutta, he ed cheap labour, used more efficient on the conversations with the war

less station which enables the left itaffles as Lieutenant-Governor machinery, but they sold knowledge of the Government, Marshal Petain, Marshal Franchet

D'Esperey, General Castelnau and Commander-in-Chief to talk each in charge of the island and Its goods direct without having to pay fat commissions to such people as though he appears to have over-

General Gouraud. All the great day with the Admiralty in Lon- 5,000,000 Inhabitants. stepped the limits. The brunt Rússlan

don. Army commanders are

He can talk, too, with But, with priceless stupidity, the merchants of Singapore, of the criticism has, unhappily, dead. General Denikin, who aur Richmond, near Sydney, and

More important still, they flooded the British Government, under

and Castlereagh fallen on him, and it is this cir-vives, was a corps commander in

Canning, the Straits Settlements with their with Darwin, in North Aus who has

nir cumstance which has had the re-the war, Germany,

tralia; both of these are traded, sold, and gave away all goode to such an extent, that on bases of the future.

that we possessed there. They May 7, 1934, the British Gavern- grettable 'result of his handing General Ludendorff, supplies the in his resignation. Sir Samuel oldest survivor in General Macken-

At Chang-Singapore's Bem returned their conquests to the ment decided to fix quotes on all He was 86 on

Dutch, and when Raffles pro- Crown colonies for foreign cotton December bridge-a village has been convert- has been made the victim of sen.

and rayon textiles, tested he was snubbed. G. He prides himself that fa

ed into a garrison town with

Those quotas were based on the circumstances arising from IL

waist-line has never altered since artillery, engineer, and infantry In 1818 the tide turned in his mistake in tactics. Defending

he ordered his first uniform nearly barracks. The hills are fortified favour. Lord Hastings, Minto's average textile Importa of each the British efforts to reach seventy years ago.

with anti-aircraft and long-range successor, impressed by Raffles' colony from 1927 to 1931, and they basis for discussion of peace, Mr.

insistent warnings that the Dutch cut Japanese Importa into the Eden says it is right that the

Changi and the rest of Singapore would rise to pre-eminence over colonies by 57 per cent.

Yet this was not the end of this attempt should have been made,

the district round the the British in the East, sent Raffles although he admits that the task an almost impossible one. But the British public has never

A few weeks later, worried by impossible for her to hope to break for one moment taken the stand

the vacillating home Government, into the Western markets. Con- that all possible avenues towards

Hastings, changed his mind and sequently Japan looks to Asia as the

market she must develop, reaching a settlement should not

seventh wrote to call him back. be explored; there has not been,

But Raffles had gone off like n an excellent violinist and makes his largest port in the work, just and there still is not, the slightest own violins. In the war he was exceeding Hongkong last year in bullet from a

gun, and before desire that peace prospeels taken prisoner and it was while tonnage cleared and entered. Hastings penned his recall Raffles should be jeopardised by failure he was in a prison camp in Ger- Through it passes-and must pass had planted the Union Jack at to take advantage of every op many that he became a Socialist.all traffle between East and West, Singapore with his own hands.

The alter | On his return to Russin he found

Singapore grew.. Here more than portunity offering.

that lends natives are altogether too grima Balahovists suspicious and co-through the Suez Canal, past Adan 440,000 people, of whom only 7,600 to warrant precipitate rejection luctant to avail themselves of his past India, to the Maluy Archi- are Europeans, have reared a of reasonable plans. If there services, until Trotsky Insisted that pelago, where it can turn north to colony which has become the key

efficiency was more Im China and Japan, souths to Australia to the wealth of the East. a prospect of devising "portant even than pure proletarian and New Zealand, is one of the

Last year Singapore exported So, the future of Singapore hinges on the Ententions of Isolution which would be accepta-descent. Voroshiloft,

goods valued at £60,300,000 and Japan. Singapore, with its guns, imported £55,000,000 worth and its air and naval bases, its cause- ble to the League and the two and Blucher were all N.C.O. in greatest routes in the world.

On it, every day in the year, most of that paid commissions to way across the strait of Johore to parties to the dispute, there the war. The first, as Commissar

plods. £200,000,000 worth of merchants..

the mainland, is not a threat to could be no possible criticism of for War, is, next to Stalin, the moat

British ships and cargoes.

Japan. the Paris talks. Actually, how-notable personality in the U.S.S.R.:

It is designed to block a move there has not been the the second, with his luxuriant In the Archipelago these ships THE need for a strong base in least ground for believing that moustache and fondness for vodka, sail through an international zone the Middle East was omcially which Japan may decide to maite.

Even in a war Britain could not. the efforts could at this juncture still a characteristic Cossack serin which, before the rise of Singa- recognised at the Imperial Confer- prove fruitful. Italy is obvious-geant-major; the last, after a good pore, they were unprotected and once in 1921. Australia and New attack Japan from Singapore. It

number of ideological ups and exposed.

Zealand aggressively informed the is nearly 4,000 miles from Singa (Continued on Page 6.)

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Of the five Red Army officers who island within a radins of twenty in search of a foothold in the area trade war. Her goods are inforfor to prevent any which the Dutch were intent on to those of the West, and the wall have just been made Marshals of miles-enough

of international tariffs makes it the Soviet Union, two. Exoroff and enemy squadron passing through acaling up. Tukhachellski, served as efficers in the narrow navigable channel. the Imperial Army. Tukhacholfski was, in the crack Preobrajenski

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She has attempted to counter Singapore by toying with the idea of a canal across the Malay reninsula, high above Singu. pore, and entirely in Siamese territory. Investigation has convinced Japan now that this would be uneconomien),

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The Archipelago is a vast region conference that the war and the pore to Tokyo, and the fighting of dangerous channels, a maze of Panama Canal had shifted the range of a modern flect is about. islands and treacherous reefs. It world's stage from the Mediter- 1,500 miles, of a bombing squadron has one main navigable channel, ranean and the Atlantic to the 1,000 miles.

But, IF Britain could block d integrity. That being the case, harm has actually been done, as and commanding that channel is Pacific.

Premior W. F. Massey, of New hostile fleet at the Malay Arch!- the drawing up of a definite it happens, save that Britain has Singapore.

Zealand, tried to put the problem polage, the trade route from Perth, formula at this stage was fore- lost the services of an able Nearly 7,000 ships call at Singa- tactfully.

Australia, to Colombo and Suez. 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. Government should have been fact, this much to the good-ransom in trade. From the Malay the other side during the war," he 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,

but not have been the slightest in-shown unmistakably that public world's rubber. The peninsula and this is possible

affect from Japan would have to tention of forcing the plan on opinion expects it to live up to its some of the Dutch Islands have the one result would have been certain, make a detour of nearly 6,000 Neither Australia nor New Zealand miles round the authern tip of Ethiopia or the League; the vital promises. The lesson is one greatest tin mines on earth..

able to dend' Australia without a bazo. for re--: fact is that the moment was not which should be taken to heart. On the islands of Sumatra, Java, would have been

fuelling. Land Borneo is oil.

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