NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 2 May 1923

2 MAY 1923

A large scheme to develop Singapore as a British naval base was announced in the House of Commons. [This project was completed in 1938 at a cost of £60 million, equivalent to around £3 billion today. It was abandoned by the British in 1942 but regained after the Second World War]

Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of State for Air, speaking at the Constitutional Club in London emphasised the need for a national Air policy as a basic condition of Imperial defence.

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was arrested by the French Government and confined in a military prison.

The Caledonian Railway Bill passed the Second Reading in the House of Commons by 163 votes to 40 votes.