Defence At Guam
WASHINGTON, February 18
Defence developments today included a favourable report by the NavaL Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on a bill seeking authority for an ' appropriation "of 52,000,000 dollars for air and submarine bases at Guam, and 10 other' points in the Pacific and Atlantic. Proposals were made by members in both the House of Representatives and the Senate that the United States should take possession of Wrangel Island, near Alaska, now held by Soviet Russia, for use as “a stopping place in the chain of American air defence stations.”
Another development was an announcement that 67,000 troops would participate in extended manoeuvres in the east this summer.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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