In the spring of 1920, the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Emperor of India, Ruler of the Waves, and Sovereign of his Brittanic Majesties' domains beyond the sea upon-which-the-sun-never-sets, officially announced a British withdrawal from the island of Singapore.
"It is our declared intention that there be no hostilities between us and the Dutch Republic's holdings in the East Indies. We are ceding this port and coaling station to the Dutch people as a token of the warm feelings we harbour towards them. We confide that the other Great Powers will not take this decisions of ours as a sign of weakness and not delude themselves that the sun is setting on the British Empire nor that Britons have drawn closer in the slightest to being slaves in apposition to ruling the waves."
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