GATEWAY TO THE FAR EAST.—Singapore (Singa Pura—the Lion City) is a striking example of successful British colonisation in the Far East. Its development within a period of little more than a century from a jungle-covered island whose sole inhabitants comprised a small native community, occupying a kampong at the mouth of the Singapore River, to the principal transhipment port of the Far East, forms a romantic episode in Empire history. There has been much new building and rebuilding in recent years and the city has gained added prestige in consequence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 19
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90GATEWAY TO THE FAR EAST.—Singapore (Singa Pura—the Lion City) is a striking example of successful British colonisation in the Far East. Its development within a period of little more than a century from a jungle-covered island whose sole inhabitants comprised a small native community, occupying a kampong at the mouth of the Singapore River, to the principal transhipment port of the Far East, forms a romantic episode in Empire history. There has been much new building and rebuilding in recent years and the city has gained added prestige in consequence. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 19
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