1936-07-20 — Page 6

THE HONGKOng Telegraph, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1936.

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FACTS

When

Singapore TxIx offered as a gift to Scots- man Alerander Hamilton in 1703 he declined.

Wiser Sir Thomas Raffles made British Government, 1824, buy it, price £13,500,

Under distond Queen Victoria. became a pleasant rențezvars for pirates,

Later recognised as the cross-roads of the world, but had no dry dock till 1928. Chinese still mut-number Euripeans by 5 to 1.

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shillings, mak-

ing six in all.

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AUSTRALIA

Perth

And with six shillings you can da quite a lot.

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By Philip Jordan

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AUCKLAND)

TASMANIA

NEW ZEALAND.

Strategic Point @ Major Bases O Defendet Points✪

Jest only

peer in the

Long slipways go down from the northern edge of this field into the SOR, and from its translucent waters are hauled and towered the great flying boats with which Imperial Britain de- fends her Eastern lands.

The entrances to this hornets' nest are well and truly guarded, · At Changi, on the extreme N.E. point of Singapore Island, a gar- rison town has been built to house The immense reserve of troops, and mechanics whom it is considered necessary tu, keep there.

THE hills are full of How much con-

guns.

• crete has been imported to make hods for them it is impossible to discover; but it is known that a

"The Hoard is not a juggernaut | a roll of film for your OF that reported plan bayonets on the ends of their Tekong and the island of Palau

rolling mechanically over the lives camera.

of

Some

millions I' himan

For the

Xts AL

It may well be, however, that those who call upon us to spend this further there shillings of 03111" hard-earned money have already dreided that great naval base at Capetown would, jungle into a after all, he preferable to one at naval base with- TEXT time you get your Singapore; and that something out

hair cut in Singapore like £14,000,000 will now be world. take a look at the barber, spent in South Afrien, of which The work is so recent that ge number of big gun experts He may well be a Japanese the Union Government will con- children still at school can remem- have been at work there for years, admiral

So tribute half.

superintending the labours of her when jungle stood there and thisands of "coolies"; and that OF general.

not a secret dockyard surrounded may the man who sells you

with barbed wire and Sikhs with the big and little islands of Pulau Uhin. which guard the entrance it is at present im- rifles.

Dock IX.. as it is known, is to the hornets': nest, are full of hairdressing possible to obtain any confirma- leinps." So detures Lord Rush-parlours, and the camera British Admiralty hold secrets as £700,000 floating dock, towed

tion, for the grey walls of the Singapore's masterpiece. This Secret emplacements where there unnumbered anti-aircraft cliffe, the Chairman of the Un-shops of Singapore are full efficiently

of the largest employment Assistance Board, in

smoke-screen from Newcastle by Dutch tugs us and some

calibre guns in the world. presenting the yearly report of its of Japanese all keeping an thrown out by one of their own at a cost of nearly a quarter of Nor is this all. activities This, hi brief, is the eye on Britain's white elo destroyers.

a million pounds (more than

At Bedok reply to those who are constantlyphant; the great naval base, Singapore, more than £7,000,000 Suez Canal dues); a 900fi, grav- islands to the south of Singapore. the fate of £10,000 of which was paid in Point, in the east, on the small criticising the activities of the towards whose cost to date has already been spent in build ing dock, nearly half a mile of town, in the coconut groves and system which the Board operates and who appear to delight in you and I and all our fellow ing an arsenal on this island, the quay, long fuelling wharves, giant rubber plantations to the west, representing it as harsh, inhuman, countrymen,

and exact position and size of whose cranes, pumps, power stations and in the hills of Johore to the and burgaiteratieone which children have contributed will only be disclosed when and machine shops go to form ns north of the Straits, batteries of ruthlessly deals with the needs of three shillings each.

they first roar in battle.

modernly equipped a hospital for artillery with a long range are the poor and the unfortunate,

What facts are known beyond sick and damaged ships as the realy at any moment to repel in- You can't do a great deal disputevare few. Officially noth- world has ever seen. Actually, there is no country in

A few miles to their immic- 'And, as they say, for why?. the world which shows greater with three shillings; but when ing is admitted: but long and

for those who, through nearly 50,000,000 people club sometimes dangerous research has dinte south is the voice with

To this there can only be one fault of, their own, are without together and each contributes dragged small particles of in- which Singapore daily speaks answer. work. The Beard has, from the that amount they can transform formation into the light of day, to London-one of the Empire's

Because of the Japanese. On the great and opulent city

world's richest area, 70,000,000

-edThane-who-used-to-see-it-in-

women

But whatever

vnders.

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

Co., Ltd. start of its existence two years a peaceful skud into an impregn- and as those particles, like the most powerfully equipped wire-

aps, recomised that it has to deal able fortress; and then discover pieces of a highly complicated jig- less stations. That, too, is of Singapore, capital of the with an infinite variety of circum-that it is not ikely to be of much saw puzzle, have been fitted to guarded and secret place.

gether, a picture has emergeil; More secret still are the fuel pairs of Japanese eyes are fneuss. stances and with a vast number of use in an emergency. men and women whose human- -By-Dw-lime-the-Singapore_and_the_beholder finds himself depots. scattered around______the_ needs enlled for help and sym-base is completed we shall such examining a titan routed to the stand. Stored in underground reality may no longer do so, for pathy. Elasticity is essential to have contributed another three ground, at whom, so long as they vaults and in high circular domes Japanese are no longer allowed keep out of his limited range, are said to be over a million and to own land on the hills of Johore, meet these varying needs. Dis-

small Japanese boys and admirals a quarter tons of fuel, enough to overlooking the naval base, and, cretionary power to deal with in-

may pull long noses with im- supply the ships and aeroplanes with the aid of field glasses and of Singapore for more than half telescopes, to bring it to their are in close touch with the actual With the great development in

doorsteps. A new branch of the circumstances of a family. The road travel a significant change is

The major fuel reserves lie to Singapore C.I.D. has just been Board now states that it is satisfi- taking place in the character of of Singapore Island, thousands the south-west of Selatar, not formed to deal exclusively with ed that this discretion is exercised the British inn. For generations of Chinese and Tamil labourers, far from the 600 acres flying spics. in a way which is both intelligent the wayside inn was one of the paid at the rate of 1s. 6d. a day, field on which sleep the wings of A secret document is said to

main features of the picturesque have

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dividual cases is vested in: NOTES OF THE DAY

trict oflicers, whose area officers |

and humane. It is interesting to British countryside. These old recall that the Board was set up inns were small, comfortable and

punity.

at a time when the whole insur-homely places. Each of them had ance system was in danger of its own individual characteristics.# breakdown. The insurance fund The proprietors were until was incurring debt at the rate of cently humble country-folk, and

customers nearly a million sterling per week, the

mostly Jocal and labourers, whose and the fund was paying, under farmers

was almost exclusively the name of insurance, what was beverage

mollern needs.

There are

This much is known. At Selutar, o the north part

# transformed

a year.

thick Britain's Eastern power:

re-

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

A

have been

in fact relief. Fears were ex-beer. Spirits and wines were re served for special occasions. pressed when the Act was passed Now that there are hundreds of that a centralised system would thousands of motorists on the roadsi prove soulless and burgaucratic in special catering. arrangements its work; the course of events has have lind to be minde. In some proved that such fears were cases, in place of the old inus, groundless. Through its six thou-new modern hotels sand officers, the Board has built; in others, even in the art constantly kept before it the prin- of the country, the old-fashioned ciple that it is dealing, not with taverna have been renovated and names on a-register, but with the brought more into the line wilt lives of human beings, whom its

altogether atomL duty is to help through times of economic stress, But it also has seventy thousand inns in England to bear in mind that it is trusteed Wales, and within the past year approximately one-third of for the taxpayer and for the them have been reconstructed and great and increasing body of remodelled. In London alone, of workpeople who are in employ-the five thousand inus, nearly halt ment.

The That the activities of the have already been rebuilt Board should meet with criticism work of replanning and remodell- in to be expected, but there is no ing continues unceasingly, the total evidence that the system of which expenditure involved running into it has charge is operated in a millions of pounds. In many parts mechanical manner. Through its of the country, inns which, at the direct contact with those who need beginning of the present century, wore concerned only with serving aid, the Board is able to adjust its alcoholic drinks, now provide ne- help so that it will meet the commodation for parties of guests, particular needs of given cases. many of whom may not touch It is thus that treatment varies in liquor of any kind. The old- different instances. But the broad fashioned drinking tavern makes principle of giving assistance to practically no appeal: The modern those who need and deserve it is traveller, no matter of whatever always kept well in view, and it is class he may be, demands bright- this circumstance which invests ness, cleanliness and cheerful aur- roundings, and 110 doubt the the British system with the large attempt of the inn-keeper to meet measure of success registered in his requirements is largely respon- handling an amazingly complex sible for the surprising decline of and difficult problem.

drunkenness in recent years.

“We'll have to kill another bour some way, If we go home this early it will spoil the cook."

still exist which tells that Japan was willing to put 1,000,000 men on the western front in the dark days of the war if she might have Singapore for her own. politely as that offer was made it was refused.

As

One day Japan may ask for the Singapore at the point of pistol; and when she does it will be seen if the naval base can jus- tify the vast expenditure we have all made on it.

Some experts think that it will nol, and they say that it has a strategie value but no tactical possibilities. Unless Britain, they say, can detach from her. Home and Mediterranean Fleets capital - ships big enough to engage those with which Japan will blockade the naval base, it can serve no purpose other than to divert part of the Japanese battle fleet from an attack on Australia.

A JAPANESE army,

they go on to say, landing on the coasts of Johore, and working in co-operation with the blockading fleet, could starve out Singapore in a few months. At present Britain has no capital ships to spare and none capable of operating in that climate.

Australia does not believe in Singapore; and never did. To show her contempt she is, it is said, about to build an air force of 1,500 front line planes, and has already ordered from Bri- tain no fewer than 169 to act as Jigs or patterns on which to build the rest in her own fac-

tories.