NORTH SEA TO PACIFIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 11

NORTH SEA TO PACIFIC

NAVAL CENTRE SHIFTS VALUE OF SINGAPORE BASE By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright NEW YORK, Tuesday. In the course of a round-table discussion on the British commonwealth of nations at the conference of the Institute of Politics at Williainstown, Massachusetts, Lieutenant Gary, of th© intelligence department of the United States Navy, said the most significant aspect of the modern international era was the shifting of the world s political and naval centre from the North Sea to the Pacific. The Singapore base was the key to Britain’s new naval strategy, said Lieutenant Singapore was on Britain’s window overlooking the Pacific. The base there was a factor upon which it was most likely Japan did not seriously count at the Washington Conference. Professor Heaton, of Queen’s University, Canada, said Canada had shown little interest in naval defence because she was comparatively safe from naval attack. But Australia and Aew Zealand, because they were in isolated positions, felt great dependence on the British Navy.—A. and N.Z.

NAVY OF AUSTRALIA

NEW VESSELS THIS YEAR B U Cable.— Frees Association . Copi/right MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Speaking at a conference of ibe *^ Federation, the Federal Attorney-General, Mr. J. G. Latham, said two cruisers and an aircraft carrier would be built for the Australian Navy this vear out of surplus revenue.—A. and N.Z.