Singapore, Feb, 19.
Twenty-five British warships are fathering at Singapore, whose $20,069,000 "Naval Base " is still without a fleet or even a squadron.
The warships include three crul ere from the East Indies Station at Trincomalee (Ceylon), and cruisers, escort vessels, destroyers and sub: marines from the China Station at No large-scale combined operation with the Army and Air Force os have been executed in the past, will be carried out during the visit fof the naval vessels, Reuter under Stands. 'Fleet manquvres, however. will be carried out in the waters near the fortress of Singapore. Some of the naval vessels will pay Sshewing the fag" visits. to, small 'Malayan' ports, Air Vice-Marshal J. 'T, Babingion, Air OMicer Commanding the Royal Air Force in the Far East, ts fying Sarawak from Singapore February 27 to. confer with Sir Charles" Brooke, "the Rajah of Sovawhk. A number of Royal Air Force landing grounds are. being. developed In" Sarawak, "which Fegnrded of vital' Importance Euarding she approach to Singapore from the East. lee-Marshal Babington recently visited Ceylon, Hongkong and Bur The Singapore Base ts a symbol of Britain's strength in the Far Eastern arena," declared It-Col. Sir Henry Muliencux Grayson, who was Director of Ship Repairs for the Admiralty" during the Great Wax, in'an Interview here." "People In'Belain and in Australa and New Zealand are anslous;" he sd, fee the Singnpore' Naval. "Bate fumed as "soon as posite ete
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