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SHOULD BRITAIN PAY ALL? LIBERAL PAPERS HOTLY CRITICAL “AUSTRALIA SHOULD PAY" By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, November 17. The “Daily News” says that the Singapore dock, for which a contract has been let, will be designed to lift the largest warship afloat. It is likely to be built in the near future, and will probably approach the size of the huge dock at Southampton, which is 960 feet long, 170 feet wide, 70ft high, and lifts a vessel' of 60,000 tons displacement. Opposition newspapers criticise the Singapore scheme. The “Gazette” says: “The British taxpayers are entitled to know what part of the hill Australia and New Zealand are footing for this costly insurance, which Australia could better secure with a base at Sydney.” The “Star” calls the base a Jingo monstrosity. “If ‘White Australia’ needs such a base,” says the “Star,” “Australia should build it on Austraian soil, and pay the cost.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 8
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157COST OF SINGAPORE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 8
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