A Strange Query: Denial of Understanding for Joint Use "by Two Countries London, Mar, 17.
1a the House of Commons to-day, replying to Commander J. M. Ken: worthy (Liberal), Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, the Secretary lof State for War, said that the stion of defences. required to jest the Singapore base—still was being considered by the Com-jute of Imperial Defence.
It was impossible to make 1 state-costar the date of commencing.
it at present with regard to the
work on it. The question whether. the present defences, were sufficient, for must be increased would depend n the report of the Committee, Brig-Geneval H.C. Brown (Conservative) asked whether the Government would consider _ap-Jproaching Australia and New Zealand with a request to hel Sir Laming Worthingt ied that this did not Jef the question Mar, 18, In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. John ther any kind of understanding Jexisted between the naval authorities of Britain and America and whether the possibility of the use Joy America of the proposed base fat Singapore had ever been ise cussed.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the Foregn Secretary, replied that the answer to the second part of the fyvertion way plainly in the negaty He was not sao thay he understood the fret part, +9 he confined himself to saying that, as junderstandl He hoped he knew, there was not now
there would never be any aula
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