THE SINGAPORE BASE
DESIGN OF FLOATING DOCK SOME BRITISH OPPOSITION DOMINIONS’ PART IN PLAN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 17. The Daily News say® tho Singapore dock will be designed to lift the largest' warship afloat or likely to be built in the near future. It will probably approach in size the huge dock at Southampton, which is 960 feet long, . 170- feet wide and 70 feet high, an<l lift® vessels of 60,000 tons displacement. Opposition newspapers criticise the Singapore scheme. The Westminster Gazette says: British taxpayers are entitled to know what part of the Bill 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 the White Australia policy needs such a base she should build it and Australian soil should pav the cost.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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144THE SINGAPORE BASE Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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