DEFENCE OUTPOSTS
AMERICA’S WESTERN BORDER SEAPLANE BASES IN MAKING NEW YORK, May. 9. “ America’s western defences are being developed along a 5,000-mile lip® cutting from north to south across midPacific and anchored by five islands,” says the Washington correspondent of the New York ‘ Herald-Tribune.’ “ These outposts represent defence eyes rather than strongholds. The general programme proposes seaplane bases, starting at Dutch Harbour, Unalaska, and Kodiak. The line, for which patrol planes will be responsible, runs south 1,600 miles to Midway Island, thence south-west 1,000 miles to Wake Island, thence 1,800 south-east to Canton, thence south 700 to Pago Pago; Active naval work at Midway Island is also ordered, and the same at Wake Island later, with good landing harbours equipped with powerful radio stations. Patrol planes will be able to cover a long line cutting the Pacific, spotting foreign naval movements in advance. [Unalaska is a sealing and whaling centre in the Aleutian Islands.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 12
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