IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1938, Page 5

IN AMERICA

U.S.A. DEFENCES

PACIFIC AIR PORTS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.;

NEW YORK, May 9. . America’.s western "defences are be-

'■ ing developed along a 5000-mile line J cutting from, north to south across the middle ol' the Pacific and anchored hy five islands, says the Washington correspondent of the New York HeiaklTribune.” 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 aeroplanes will be responsible runs south 1600 miles to Midway Island, thence southwest TCOO miles to Wake Island, then 1800 miles south-east to Canton Island, and another 700 miles south to Pago

Pago. Active naval work at, Midway Island is also ordered, and the same will be x -carried out at Wake Island. Later, with good landing harbours ♦•quipped with powerful radio stations, the patrol aeroplanes, will he able to cover a long line cutting the Pacific, and will be able to discern foreign naval movements in advance.

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, May 9

Mr Roosevelt, in a message read by. the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) and broadcast to Latin America, declared that there was need for a joint effort in constructing a new and better world order. ' Mr Hull said the United States reciprocal trade treaty programme was the nation’s contribution to the ■ need for world, economic co-operation. ; “In the world to-day,” he said, “there is not any more potent force for economic well-being and sdcial stability than the expanding of international trade, functioning on a basis of mutual-advantage, fair ; dealing, and noil-discriminatorv treatment.”