AMERICA ALARMED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 5

AMERICA ALARMED

AERIAL SURVEY OF PACIFIC INTENTION THIS YEAR. REPORTS OF JAPAN’S ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKING TO COST £IOO,OOO. (United Preen Association —By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 2. The United States at a cost of £IOO,000, says the Daily Herald, is preparing- a big aerial survey of the Pacific islands, nominally to collect geographical and scientific information, but in reality to find out what the Japanese are doing, as the United States is thoroughly alarmed at persistent reports of fortified naval submarine and air bases at Bonin, Marianne and Pellew Islands.

If fortifications are discovered 1 it will be « flagrant breach of Article 10 of the Washington- Treaty. The survey is likely to occupy a year.

The diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” it was reported this Week, says the sudden decision of Mr Norman Davis, the United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, to- ' return to Washington is regarded as significant. It is believed at Geneva that when the Disarmament Conference reassembles America’s only contribution will be to advise the European Powers to proceed with a reduction of their own armaments, the United States finding itself unable to follow suit owing to the uncertain outlook in the Pacific. In other words, America’s growing anxiety about the Far East threatens to paralyse her influence and action in the Western World.