DANGER SPOTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 167, 29 April 1935, Page 5

DANGER SPOTS.

BRITISH ISLANDS IN INDIES. BASES FOR AERIAL ATTACK. (United Press Association— WASHINGTON, April 28. General F. M. Andrews (Chief of the powerful new General Headquarters of the Air Force) was revealed on (Saturday night to have told a House of Representatives committee that in. emergency the United States must be prepared to seize British and French islands near America.

General Andrews appeared at a secret session of the House Military, Committee and supported the Wilcox Airbase Bill authorising half a dozen strategic Army aviation centres. :> He declared that even with Canada neutral an enemy had the following'' bases available: Newfoundland, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Honduras and the Lesser Antilles. JTo against air attacks being launched from any of these in time of emergency they must- be kept under. ■ surveillance to discoye.r any evidence of their preparation as bases, “We must be ready,” he said,•? “to bomb such installations as soon as they are, discovered. If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be ~ prepared to seize these outlying bases.” General Andrews did not ex- ;; plain what he considered an emergency. , „ ~ Major Hugh J. Knerr, also ot the General Headquarters of the Air l orce said: “I have been informed that a certain Asiatic Power has about a hundred instructors training the Peruvian Army. It is interesting to visualise how many of those are aviators. “It is not beyond the realm of possibility thati some fine morning we may read of the fact that there has been a successful air raid against the Panama Canal as an initial step, prior to the declaration of war.”