TESTING SINGAPORE DEFENCES
SETTLEMENT BLACK OUT SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. The settlement was black out yesterday night for the first time to test its defences against aerial attack. The manoeuvres are being repeated tonight. » The black-outs are a prelude to combined naval and military manoeuvres to take place in March, in which 25 warships will participate. The British Government is spending £2,000,000 in strengthening the defences of Malay and the Straits Settlements and otherwise protecting Singapore’s back door.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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77TESTING SINGAPORE DEFENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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