All Eyes on Singapore
INGAPORE is at once an island, a city, and a naval base. As an island, it is only another tropical outpost which, left to itself, would soon revert to jungle and malarial swamp. It lies at the southernmost tip of Asia, where the land narrows down to the Malay Peninsula, and is separated from the mainland by a channel which is only a mile wide at one point. Situated 78 miles from the Equator, the island is only 18 miles long by 15 miles wide. Singapore city is the epitome of an imperial outpost, one of the three or four outstandingly colourful cities of the world. Besides being the administrative centre of a rich and populous area, it is the hub of the Orient’s trade and one of the world’s great market places. Its streets ate crowded with shops and bazaars, its port filled with ships, its warehouses jammed with goods. Commercially, it is the clearinghouse for the East, and through its port passes the bulk of the world’s rubber and tin. But it is upon the naval base of Singapore that all eyes are focussed to-day. Singapore Naval Base, with its Royal Air Force stations and Imperial Garrison, has now met the destiny for which Britain has been preparing it for 17 years. It bestrides the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is on the through route for British trade to China and Australia-("Singapore and What It Guards," all National Stations, January 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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247All Eyes on Singapore New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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