DEFENSIVE SEA AREA.
AMERICAN NAVAL PLAN. WASHINGTON, April 20. An amendment to the Naval Bill was offered to-day by Senator Bone, whose plan would provide for a so-call-ed defensive sea area which the navy “shall maintain inviolate against any foe.” The area would extend from Attu Isle in the Aleutians to Midway Isle, and thence to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the eastern extremity oi the State of Maine. The amendment would not lor bid the navy from operating elsewhere in the event of war;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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85DEFENSIVE SEA AREA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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