BRITAIN AND SIAM.
i - . ■ ■ . •»— —: ■ •■■■. AN ALL-RED RAILWAY SYSTEM PIIOM " BURMA, , . ' CEDED TERRITORY. i IBy Tftlccraph,-Press Association.—OoDTrlcbt.) Port Darwin, August 3. Eastern files contain information that, the Governor of the Straits , Settlements,. Sir John Anderson, has assumed the administration of the fifteen thousand square miles of Malay Peninsula ceded to Britain under the recent Anglo-Siamese treaty. • The concession makes possible railway communication . between. Singapore: and Bangkok (capital of Siarn), ar.d the linking up of the railways of . Southern Burma, and the Malay States; then tho whole system will. traverse British territory of pass through the British Sphere/of influence in! Siarrii / .V ' Strategically, tho acquisition prevents any foreign Power , from acquiring a base for cutting British communication to tho Hast, and praotically closes tho Straits ;of Malacca.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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125BRITAIN AND SIAM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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