Malay States Not Yet Consulted to Fate of Naval Base Singapore, Aug. 14.
Tike Governor, Sir Hugh Clifford, to-day officially opened the floating dock -at the Naval Base, In his-speech he said that he had bhat been consulted as regards the future policy, but thought it unlike that a "final decision would be! reached without consulting the Tulers of the Malay-States, at whose instigation the Government of the! Federated Malay States contributed *€2,000,000 towards the construction of the Base—Reuter.
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