U.S. MAY START SHOOTING
German Threats At Sea (12.18 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 26. It can be assumed that Britain has sent three battleships to Singapore, says the “New York Post.” The diversion of American naval forces from the Pacific to the Atlantic is taken as confirmation of reports published in the United States that Britain has reinforced her Far Eastern squadron. The United States navy is now equally divided between the Atlantic and the Pacific and may start shooting in the event of new German threats in either ocean, states Major Hanson Baldwin, military correspondent of the “New York Times.”
The Germans, he adds, are preparing for an intensified U-boat campaign
throughout the winter if they are bogged down in Russia. This campaign will be counterbalanced by the more efficient and swifter construction of American merchantmen, submarine chasers, patrol planes and aircraftcarriSrs. The Maritime Commission plans to launch two freighters a day during the next two years. Major Baldwin says he considers that Britain’s blockade of the continent is growing more important monthly.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22052, 27 August 1941, Page 5
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