Singapore, Jan. 22.
British authorities here consider that if there is going to be trouble this part of the world it will come {fairly soon," the "Straits Times" said today.
The newspaper interpreted a recent remark of Major-General L. V. Bond, General OMicer in Command of the Malaya Command, that volunteers were essential because of the war situation, as an indication of the be-Vet that danger to this part of the world, whatever its actual, measure, will be highest during the text three four months and that the greater the Straits' powers of resistance the less likely is the ehellenge to mater= inlise—United Press.
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