London, Feb, 8.
"Can the Singapore Naval Base accommodate three 50,000-ton battleships at the same time?"
This was the question put in the House of Commons to-day by Mr.
William Thorne, Labour member for the Plaistow division of West Ham.
Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, replied that as far as he was aware, no vessels of this type existed, Two large American flags, attached to poles, were found among abandon.
am and military equip-a godown of the Infantry shan Road, in Nanking a Japanese Embassy spokesman revealed last night.
The flags, he said, were presumably: used to camouflage Chinees military ditions so as to shield them from Japanese aerial attack.
The attention of the American authorities in Nanking was being drawn to the matter, he added
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