Mass Attack by "Enemy"
Fails Singapore, Feb, 4.
The fortifications of Singapore are generally assumed to have proved im-Bregnable in the course of comprehensive land, sea and alr manceuvres: Just concluded.
The supposed invasion by an imaginary independent state, possessing small efficient fleet air arm and a modernly equipped army, culminated fin a mass attack, but it failed to carry. the defences, ud attempts to land forces were repulsed by the coastal defence Batteries.
"The weather was fine and clear for the final assault during night-time but "dawn found the situation stabilized everywhere in Singapore.
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, was in command of the at~ tacking forees, while Major-General William Dobbie, General Ameer Commanding Malaya, directed the defenders, The oral personnel involved was: 4,000, comprising bluejackets, soldiers, id members of the Air Force as well as military forces from Johore.
Every available ship on the China Station took part in the manavuvres while the alr force included two torpedo-bomb squadrons and two dying-boat squadrons already stationed in Singapore; two squadrons on board the alreraftcarrler Hermé tone catapult Might divided between the Dorsetshire, Cumberland and. Berwick; and also squadrons from India and Iraq, the number of which was kept a secret—Reuler.
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