AN ADMIRAL ON SINGAPORE
• ' 'll",: “Singapore is far away from our main Fleet, and it is doubtful whether w© should ever be ablie to move the Fleet so far away from European waters,” writes Admiral Dewar. “It is separated by thousands of miles from British centres of population and supplies. Probably nothing less than a garrison l of 39,000 first-class troops and an air force would make it reasonably secure. If it were necessary to prepare for war in the Pacific, tlie centres of suj)ply and repair should be Australia. The Fleet should not have a fixed- base. It should be free to move about from one anchorage to another or remain at sea supplied, ns is the American Fleet, by the fle»et of oilers and store ships, The big battleship is already half doomed by the London Conference. Aro we to continue throwing away millions of pounds on something that may be useless in a few years?”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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158AN ADMIRAL ON SINGAPORE Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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