The Archive · 1934

Naval Base Strengthening

Singapore Work to Proceed More Quickly: Many New Appointments: Rifle Notes Bitter Aftermath 'A wire who was spanked because the coffee boiled over has sued for divorce. Let no wag inquire what, the grounds were.

Front Oun Muutrasy Coasesronoexe London, Apr. 1.

The increase in the total votes for the three Defence Services, £4,165,- 000, "is the first _post-disarmament move towards regaining lost ground. We get more cruisers and aeroplanes and better land defences. Also the Dig battleship is to come back and that means Singapore Base will be got on with quickly. The Malaya jarrison is raised from 1,512 to 2,322 and there will bea heavy battery and an anti-aircraft battery added at Singapore, Halt a million will be spent on the military side of the Base this year and three-quarters of a million on the naval side, By the end of the year over seven millions will have been spent on one base, leaving four millions to complete the work The permanent Challenge Cups owned by the Association are valued at £0000 and the most valuable is that which was presented in 1864 by the Volunteers in China. It has been shot for annually ever since and is: now held by the Highland Division. Tt ig remarkable to read that at Bisley the competitors from overseas came from Canada, Trinidad, Falkland Islands, South Africa, ' Natal, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Gold Coast, Tanganyika, Sierra Leone, Kenys Nigeria, Uganda, Egypt, Sudan, China, One of the Supporting Cast Tur lawyer was rehearsing the be-dutiful actress as to her appearance in the divorce court. She listened with mild interest and finally asked question, "Who plays the part of the judge?"

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