JAPAN IN PACIFIC
AMERICA ALARMED SURVEY OF ISLANDS reported fortifications THE WASHINGTON TREATY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 2. 5.15 p.m i LONDON. Nov. 2 The Daily Moral.l savs the United States at a cost of £IOO,OOO is preparing for a big aerial survey of the Pacific Islands. Nominally the purpose is to collect geographical and scientific information hut m reality it is to find out what the Japanese arc doing, as the United States Government is thoroughly alarmed at the persistent reports of fortified naval submarine and air bases m the Bonin, Marianne and Pelew Islands. If fortifications are discovered it will be a flagrant breach of Article 10 of the Washington Treaty. The survey is likely to occupy a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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