FUTURE OF GUAM
Pacific Gibraltar NEW YORK, April 22. Tlie Governor of Guam (MajorGeneral H. L. Larsen) told an interviewer that tlie island was destined to become the Gibraltar of the Pacific. The works now being carried out dwarfed the fortification plans rejected bv Congress in 1939. General Larsen said that Guam already had the largest communications plant in the Wviid. ID miles of first class iitui 200 miles ot second chi.:s roads, and several airstrips, including a SuperFortress strip hacked out of the Jungle in two months. Guam would .emerge with belter facilities than Pearl Har-
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23186, 27 April 1945, Page 2
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97FUTURE OF GUAM Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23186, 27 April 1945, Page 2
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