ied: Effect of Naval Pact on British Disposition in Far East Shanghai's Military Future Explained From 4 Miurrany Connesroxoest London, May 3, The sequel to the naval agree-1e ment between Great Britain, Japan, and the United States will be a reversal of the policy of coneentrating force in the Pacific, into and out of which lie our main trade Highlanders from Tientsin ta Hong. kong the garrison in the Ticntsim area has come down to one battalion (the 2nd Royal Seats), a signal and small detachments of RASE, RAME., and routes. Singapore Naval Base will not he proceeded with on the scale originally proposed but there prospect of the site being utilised as an air base at a very moderate outlay. This conception arises from the reduced number of small. cruisers that will be available Imperial communications in Pacific and the need for reste the balance by the nee of aircraft, A jeloser link between aeroplanes and cruisers is foreshadowed and, as we! vacate Weihaiwei, it is necessary to' have an air depot elsewhere, and Singapore offers that as being: suitable as a base for aeroplanes. and airships, China is, of course, concerned in this new proposition, although her standpoint in the matter has changed in recent years. Primarily the British in China depended on the Royal Navy but with the incidence of permanent civil war in China the Arniy's protecting role has become of importance. The Shanghai Defence Force was the first outward recognition of the changed conditions but recent reductions in the Army strength in China have caused misgiving which was in some degree allayed by the prospect of having brigade of troops handily placed at the new Singapore Base. This latter prospect is now dissolved and our more or less gradual withdrawa! from the Tientsin area becomes an teased weakness, Strategically China stands second only to Egypt in importance but with the coming: reduced commitment on the Nile, China will be our most important military contre outside of Grest, Britain and India, The policy of evacuating the Tientsin area and giving up the moral value of our Peking control has a resemblance to the abandonment of the Sudan and Khartum and it might very well turn out to be a3 costly. With the recent removal of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland there being no battalion to replace the Anzylls, A fresh battalion is under orders for Queen's Royal Regiment from Malta. but this is to relieve the 2nd Royal Scots who are to go on to India, In July Brigadier R, M. Heath is returning home from Tientsin and it is at present doubtful whether the reduced area will need the appoint ment of another Brigadier. The chances are that the Shanghai commander will have to overlook Tien tsin, The only reduction Likely to take place in Hongkong concerns the Indian battalion. The home govern ment pays to India £66,000 a year plus sea transport charges for the use of this battalion and Mr, Tom Shaw has got his economi on the item, templated in the Shanghai area and the provisional reliefs for China as a whole for 1930-31 are as follows:
Ist Queen's Royal Regiment, Malta to Tientsin, 2nd Royal Scots, Tientsin te India, Ast South Wales Borderers, Cairo to Hongkong.
Ist Somerset Infanteys Light Hongkong to Indi 2nd Royal Scots' Fusiliers, India to Shanghai.
Ist Worcestershire Regiment, Shanghai to Plymouth, Ist Gloucesters} Regiment, Cairo to. Singapore, 2nd Welsh Regiment, Singapore to Indi 2nd Northumberland Fusitiors, India to Shanghai, 2nd Green Howards, Shanghab to India, Bu. 9th Jat Regiment, Santo, Cruz to Hongkong.
Srd Bu, 15th Punjab Regimonty Hongkong to India, The Scots and Northumberland Fusiliers will only be in Shanghat for one year and the married families do not go with them, ters and the ultra-modernism of the Impressionists, He has breadth and boldness, but such refinement of hand and mind as to certainly nssure for himself a place among the great modern artists of his country—England. He is only a young, man and has a promising future, 1 should like to add to this that I regard his theory of drawing, which have personally watched take form as a contribution to art, /ER WAL A ceMTuny ERE' lone
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