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DUTCH EAST INDIES GREAT DEFENCE SYSTEM HONOLULU, Sept. 27. Mr Paul Patterson, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, arrived in Honolulu after a tour of the Far East and the Antipodes. He said he had found the Dutch East Indies fully prepared to meet any Japanese threat. He believed the Dutch Air Force would be more than a match for the Japanese. He added that the Dutch were building a great defence system throughout the islands. The United States should utilise Britain's Pacific base, sparticularly Singapore. Other members of the party revealed that the seas around the Indies are heavily mined and that vast military preparations were proceeding.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24416, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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