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SINGAPORE LOSS WILL ENDANGER WHOLE EMPIRE

LONDON, Feb. 12.

Asama Maru Coming

First Ship In Revived N.Y.K. Schedule

For the first time since she went ashore in the September typhoon of 1037, the N.Y.K." liner Asama Maru will viall Hongkong on Wednesday, Her coming will mark the revival of

the company's Japan-Hongkong acr vice on the trans-Pocide run, making

Hongkong once again the terminus of that service.

Her typhoon mishap caused the Asama Maru to fall behind her tom- panton ships, Tatuta Maru and Kamakura Maru, in Pacific crossings.

THE VULNERABILITY of Singapore to attack by Japanese bombers based on Hainan Island is commented on in London newspapers following the Japanese invasion of the island.

It is pointed out that not only the whole of French Indo-China, the Philippines-Manila is only 600 miles She was the first vessel launched and from Hainan-and Hongkong are vulnerable to attack before the typhoon, but the conse but also the great naval dock at Singapore, which is only quent hold-up art her back. Both the other ships have made their 1,000 miles distant, easily within non-stop range of hundredth crossings: the Astma Maru modern bombers.

will make hers on her next journey from the States.

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In this connection, commentant Director of Ordnance Services in on the importance of Singapore Rotarians this week an Impression of Malnya, conveyed to Bournemouth for the defence of Empire trade the critical importance to the Empire announcements, especially in case of routes, made in the new lasue of of the Singapore Naval Base.

emergency, can be made through the the German Admiralty monthly He added Wint British naval ship from the bridge. review, is of interest.

|supremacy in

Far East was She has been fitted with a double- The writer examines the British essential to the life of the Empire. plated streamlined rudder, which in trade routes which are most vital to Britain would always be on the sea conventional type and may give more The main line of defence of Great said to be more emclent than the. the Empire.

and though persons had referred to speed. Her apparatus now includes Of these, it is stated, the most Im the power of the air tt was only a magneto-striction portant from the strategical point of necessary to watch events in China sounding apparatus, which gives 4 View Is that which leads from Great and Spain to be convinced that air constant record of the depth of the Britain through the Mediterranean, supremacy alone would never deter- sea. to Singapore, Hongkong and Austra-mine the final issues of a wor. lin.

The final Issues would be deter- mined by one factor alone-our command of the sea, though we should also need efflelent land foreca.

But for supplies of food and raw materials the Atlantic routes, north and south are placed first. These, it Is pointed out, are the only routes. which are comparatively safe from attack.

MERCHANT SHIPS AND NAVY

the

Col. Macpherson then briefly sum- marised the history of Singapore and of Malaya and commented on "strangely prophetic words of Sir An outspoken article on the func-Stamford Raffles when the latter pro- tions of mercantile shipping in war, mised Lord Minto that Singapore with special reference to the British Would not only become the emporium of the East but also a very important Davy, appears in the

fortress.

merchant review,

The author, a naval offeer, argues that British shipping would, on the outbreak of war, pass automatically under

der Admiralty control.

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A particularly welcome innovation is a public telephone booth in the entrance hall. When the ship is connected to the landline in port passengers will now be able to use the telephone without being subject to the noise and discomfort caused by crowding fellow passengers and baggage men.

Social Items

The Fanling Hunt Ball will be held on Y.M.C.A.

Tuesday, February 21, at 9.30 p.m. at the Peninsula Hotel.

On Thursday, February 23, at 10; a.m. in the Y.M.C.A. West Lounge an

The following forthcoming wed-

be a warship," he declares. "Either lustrated lecture will be given by dings are announced: Mr. John Fruser

would be directly employed on Me. Phil. naval service, or it would be trans-can Airways.

S. Delany of Pan Ameri- Anderson, engineer, and Miss Alison porting troops or cargoes essential illustrated by three Gims,

The lecture will be Mary Bedggood, lady's muid, Repulse one of Day Holel; Mr. Lee Choy-yat, mer-

to the prosecution of the war. which is both sound and colour, and chant, and Miss Lee Siu-wan, of 123 Thas the entire British mercantile the other two silent. fleet would become in time of war

an integral part of the fighting Navy."

This la a new and dangerous doctrine which, if accepted, would deprive merchant ships of all the safeguards they now enjoy under international law, saya Mr. Hector C. Bywater, the "Dally Telegraph" Naval Correspondent.

These include the immunity from submarine attacks-except under the laws of prize, which forbid the sinking of any merchant vessel be- fore passengers and crew have been placed in safety-established by the submarine protocol of 1930. Ger- many, together with all the other leading naval Powers, is a signatory to this protocol,

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SUPREMACY VITAL

LONDON, Feb. 12, IF WE WERE to be denied the One of Singapore. It would ny open to any hostile power immediate ap- proach to India, Africa, Australie. and New Zealand. It would mean the beginning of the break-up of thej British Empire."

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