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Singapore has been an Asiatic paradise for Occidentals and it was built to withstand attack from the sea. Singapore Harbor on the seaward side is protected by the strongly fortified islands of Brani, Blakang Mati, East St. John. Heavy and light guns perch atop the island's 1,000 hills. Location of the biggest guns of all, the 18-inchers, is a secret, but they are probably at the Changi entrance to Johore Strait. Around the entire island on all the beaches there are barbed-wire entanglements with concrete pillboxes at intervals...
...attack and siege by land, Singapore is not so well prepared. Most of its big guns are concentrated on the seaward side, not opposite the Malay Peninsula. Its main reservoir of water is across the Strait in Johore and although there are emergency reservoirs on the island itself, the Jap might be able to thirst out the city's 600,000 inhabitants. This week the enemy was within 40 miles of the main water supply...
World War I turned the country's eyes seaward again. The U. S. found that it had a Navy, but only 81 ships in foreign trade (less than 500,000 tons). The fleet was dependent for coal and other supplies on foreign merchantmen that were either hostile or busy with other jobs. The U. S. had to pitch in and build itself a merchant fleet. It did. But by the time it got rolling at top speed, the war was over. By late 1918, U. S. merchantmen were being launched at the rate of one every three days...
...France, but it is strategic. It lies, heavily forested, under Africa's western armpit, on the coast of French Equatorial Africa, which extends into the continent so far that it touches Libya and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. South of Gabon lies little Cabinda (part of Angola); then the seaward corridor of the Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French...
Luftwaffe's pattern for bombing Great Britain began to become apparent with last week's intensive night-raiding. Around London, the prime emphases were on the city's seaward jugular, the Thames Estuary and London dock area, and on the city's western and southwestern edges...