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News dispatches contained evidence of incredible complacency. Five days before Singapore fell, the local authorities announced their intention to build air-raid shelters. A.P. Correspondent C. Yates McDaniel overheard a telephone conversation in which the manager of the Singapore radio asked permission of Governor General Sir Shenton Thomas to blow up the station because the Japanese were so close. Sir Shenton demurred; the situation was not so bad, he said. So the station went on broadcasting. Very soon, he wrote, in the midst of an admonition to keep fighting, the station went ominously dead...
Almost as the words were spoken by Singapore's Governor Sir Shenton Thomas, the fast moving Japanese piled ordeal upon ordeal for the besieged island...
...that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, K.C.M.G., C.M.G., O.B.E...
When the liner docked, the couple tripped smiling down the gangplank, amid yells of "Here comes the bride!" They refused all comment on the nuptials. Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java...
...Herbert N. Shenton of Manhattan Dr. Humanities...