U.S. Atlantic Fleet For Patrol Duty
MOSQUITO CRAFT BEING BUILT FOR BRITAIN WASHINGTON, April 30. Colonel Knox, United States Secretary of the Navy, stated to-day that the whole of the Atlantic Fleet has been assigned to neutrality patrols and that plans for the usual manoeuvres had been changed. He said that the United States was to build substantial numbers of mosquito craft for Britain. A message from the Philippines says that the Anglo-Dutch naval patrol in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans has been further extended toward the zone occupied by the United States naval patrol round the Philippines. The explorer Rear-Admiral Byrd told the Appropriations Committee to-day that the Antarctic could be made a strategic supply base should the Panama Canal be destroyed. Palmer Land, he said, was 500 miles from the southern tip of South America, and could be used as a base for ships and a cache for vital supplies. Little America could be used as a landing-place for plane flights between the United States and Australia.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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