The subject of the Singapore Base loomed large at question-time in the House of Commons to-day.
Firstly Mr. Ramsay MacDonald stated thi the postponement of wark had been confined to the Naval base. There had been no change of policy, he said, in respect of the! Air be Mr. A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Brigadier-General Clifton Brown, ive member for the New.
ion of Berkshire, said that cancelled owing to the slowing down of work. The suspension of various items of work would result in certain orders not being placed, but at the present time a good deal of the work that would have been done in the East, gave particulars of the condi (where there were any) attaching the contributions by the Federatjed Malay States, New Zealand, Hongkong and the Straits Settle Mr. Everard asked if it was no perfectly clear that the grants were made on the express understanding: that this contract would be cor pleted. "Are not the Government, he concluded "getting money by false pretences?"
Mr. Alexander said that the money at present taken up had been taken up by the Government predecessors.
Mr. A. A, Somerville, Conserv: member for the Windsor Division of and Mr. Alexander pointed out that, that question had already been an-swored.—Reuter.
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