IF WAR HITS HOLLAND
EFFECT ON PACIFIC
AMERICA AND JAPAN
v. POSSIBILITY OF CLASH
NEW YORK, April 13. Naval experts in Washington state ■that in the event of an invasion of the V.Netherlands it may be necessary to base the bulk of the United States fleet at Hawaii in order to discourage a Japanese advance upon the Dutch East Indies. The Washington correspondent of the "New York' Times" says that on the eve of the Senate hearing of the Navy Bill a sensational story was circulated there of a secret Japanese building programme, which was alleged to include eight and possibly twelve dreadnoughts of from 40,000 to 50,000 tons. ' - The Tokio newspaper "Hochi Shimbun," in an editorial, says,that if the Netherlands is involved the war will spread to the Pacific, because' Japan will not allow the Pacific to be overrun by the British and United States navies. , .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19400415.2.45.3
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 7
Word Count
147IF WAR HITS HOLLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.