FOREIGN 'PLANES OVER U.S DEFENCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 59, 11 March 1938, Page 7

FOREIGN 'PLANES OVER U.S DEFENCES.

AMERICA SAYS "NO." Request for Air Bases on Hawaii Refused. BLOW TO BRITISH INTERESTS. United Tress Association. —Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. The United Press Association's Washington correspondent has learned that the United States has rejected applications by British and Dutch interests for permission to establish commercial air bases in Hawaii on the ground that America is unwilling to expose the Hawaiian defences to the view of foreign air liners, over which it would have little control. The applications have also been refused because of the likelihood that if they were granted, other nations, inc.uding Japan, would seek the same concession. British interests proposed to use Hawaii as a stopping place in the service between Australia and Vancouver. PACIFIC ISLANDS. British Note Received in United States. i I NEW ZEALAND'S INTERESTS. (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. A message from Washington states that a British Xote has been received by " the State Department formally reserving Britain's rights to Canton Island and Enderbury Island. I It is understood that the Xote con- | tained proposals for a solution of the I controversy, and it is expected that an J effort will he made to determine priuI ciples which will not only settle the I status of Canton Island and Enderbury I Island, but will pave the way for an adjustment of the ownership of nuinerj ous other small islands in the Pacific. I The Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, manifested no surprise at the contents of the Xote. He declined to indicate whether a plan involving a joint ownership of the two islands was contemplated. Mr. Hull disclosed the fact that seven colonists who arrived on Monday at Canton Island are Hawaiians educated chiefly at Kaniehameha schools. The "Xew York 0 Sun," in an editorial regarding the islands, says: "In thf present negotiations Britain must, ol ] course, take into account Xew Zea I land's sensibilities. The Minister is, it I fact, caught between two fires, but maj j cite the possible usefulness to Imperia I defence of having the United State: J possess another stake in the Soutl I Pacific." ! A message from Tokyo states thai Rear-Admiral Xoda remarked thai Japan was watching interestedly America's occupation of the Phoeni> Islands, and her disputing of Britisl sovereignty, but he was not prepared tc comment.