The report urges better equipment for British ships to compote more effectively with foreign lines for passengers and a greater devolution of management, including more authority for Eastern representatives.
"The issues involved," it states, concern Naval and economic fenge in time of peace and War "What Singapore is 1 the Navy Air Force, that is what markets in the Orient are to the mercantile marine, The prosperity of great Brit mercantile banking interests in. the Far East depends on the ability of British merchant shipping to keep, its share in the carrying trade in Far Eastern waters."—Reuter.
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