British Naval Strength

In the Pacific

famous naval writer, Sir Archi * bald Hurd, in an article in Sydney Morning Herald of November 10, says that Britain’s huge ship-building pro gramme, plus the construction of the Singapore base, will allow the re-estab lishment of British naval strength in the Pacific at a very early date.

Early in this century, owing to the growth of the German and Russian navies in Europe, the powerful British Pacific squadrons were called home, and naval dominance in the Pacific, for over 30 years, passed to the fleets of the United States and Japan.