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[?]y Should British [?] From [?] Singapore Chinese!

\ a letter to the London “Daily •graph,” in May, a Mr. T. E. gkinson, of Bath (evidently a •ed British public servant) puts effective words what most \h Pacific people are thinking it the Singapore situation: jring the war, Sir Winston rchill once said hat he had not n office to preside at the dis tion of the British Empire. >w the policy of the Conserv “ party has altered! A Don ative Colonial Secretary has de ;d —it was even on St. George’s —that the Government recog i the “legitimate desires of the ile of Singapore to govern iselves.” hat absolute nonsense this is. apore is British, bought from rightful owner by Sir Stamford les, and created out of a wilder of mangrove swamp by British ur and capital. The few fisher who inhabited the island at time of its sale to Raffles prob welcomed the change in ;ers. i-day, Singapore city ranks as of the most modern in the ± Its harbours and dock in ations are second to none in Far East. is blessed with a just and im ial administration, so that the i immigrant Chinese have been to make fortunes, and keep i, without fear of being dered by their Malay neigh s. e majority of the Straits-born ese I met while I was serving the RAF Regiment, Malaya, glad of British government in sland. ie remedy for the others who dislike us is in their own Is. Tickets to China are readily liable. 1 the work of the loyal, suf ficing thousands of Britons who laboured, lived and died to j Singapore great is apparently ; discarded by the Government le asking of a man who cannot claim to speak for the majority ie inhabitants. s. Bernice Ewing, wife of James ur Ewing, former Governor of :ican Samoa, filed suit for ce in San Francisco on July 5.

Ewing obtained a court order mting Ewing from disposing of of his assets until the pre lary hearing on July 15. Mrs. ig seeks $7OO a month mainten- The suit claims that Ewing, low engaged in the importing less, has an estate worth 000.