SIX MONTHS' FOOD
SUPPLIES FOR BASES
ALLEGED LEAKAGE OF SHIPPING NEWS
\ WASHINGTON, May 7. Defence officials are planning to store at least a six months' reserve supply of food at all the nation's strategic outposts, such as Hawaii and the Philippines, as protection against a possible blockade.
In reference to the report from Tokio .Mr. Roosevelt's secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, said that he had never heard of the possibility that the Panama Canal might be closed to Japanese ships.
The Department of Justice is investigating ' complaints about information concerning shipments to England being disclosed to the Axis by the re-1 lations of some American * insurance companies with a Swiss cartel, by means of j reports required by the insurance companies and reinsurance data sent to the Swiss companies. It is alleged that this method is also used to reveal the, ■ dates of sailings and the routes of supply vessels going 'to England.' :-'.-: ■;;::.; .■. The.. immigration authorities, * fore*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 7
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156SIX MONTHS' FOOD Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 7
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