SINGAPORE BASE.
SING A POP H BASF. [“Tjie Times” Service.] (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. March !). The “Times” in a leader powerfully restated the ease lor Singapore, with which it declares is bound up the whole question of Imperial defence, and the special circumstances of scattered Ileitis 1 1 peoples. !;i|iid [their communications. It is the business of statesmanship to provide against contingencies of the future, and to construct a naval base not as an act of aggression, but rather as an exhibition of common prudence. If there is to he no immediate progression of work undertaken at Singapore, there must at least, ho no iiTevocahle reversal of policy to Australia as to other dominions. The abandonment of the scheme would be a plain derogation from tlie agreed Imperial Policy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1924, Page 3
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132SINGAPORE BASE. Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1924, Page 3
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