NEW ROAD TO ALASKA PROPOSED

Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 21

NEW ROAD TO ALASKA PROPOSED

VANCOUVER, August 17. The United States Government is anxious to have a start made on the British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska highway. The project has been before the people for some years, as a means of opening up the mineral resources of the north, but latterly has entered the field of international politics. The United States is prepared to advance money for building the highway, 500 miles of which is in Canadian territory in British Columbia and the Ytikon. The provincial Government, seeking a panacea for unemployment, is agreeable to any plan that will ensure the highway, being built, but the Dominion Government is apathetic toward the proposal, ,as it considers that it would commit Canada to an alliance for defence, with the United States. But the United States Government feels that some outlet by land should be provided for Alaska, where a huge Army and Air Force base is to be established, to form the nucleus of a force that will defend both countries from attack from the Orient.