Redemption in Singapore

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Today, influencing the shape of world affairs, for generations to come. Redemption in Singapore. Excuse me. I had the feeling as I stood there that the naval yard of Singapore had always looked like this.

Giant cranes lifting and lowering things. Locomotive moving heavy loads back and forth. Dockyard machinery. Repair shops. Men like ants working all over the great ships in the grading dock. swinging over the side and bows and chills, scrambling over the gun pellets, assembling a system of the pokesful, scraping and painting the flying bridge.

Alright, let's go, the line's all over. It's enough, now, now, now. What's that? I have the feeling that it's always been like this, and yet I knew so well, it had not. I remember what it looked like after the bomb.

The way places always looked after bomb and it was. wreckage, rubble, steel twisted in a fantastic torch of shape, mangan machinery, craters like ugly wounds and fire-blackened stumps of buildings. I remember what was said when Singapore fell.

The Britain is the greatest military disaster of the war, greater even than Dunkers. A Dunkers to British Expeditionary Force lost all its equipment, but 80% of the personnel were saved. At Singapore, the British Empire lost a whole army of 70,000, together with their equipment and the bats and costly naval days.