ARMED JAPANESE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 1

ARMED JAPANESE.

25,000 Ready Immediately if Called On. AMERICAN STATEMENT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 14, 11.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 13. Representative Dockweiler, Democrat, California, made a statement in the House of Representatives that 25,000 out of 100,000 Japanese resident in California were capable of going under arms immediately.

U.S. DEFENCE CHAIN. Great Preparations Made in Pacific. LONDON, February 13. The aviation correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph ” says that the United States, being apprehensive of a combined sea and air menace on the Pacific Coast, is organising a chain of defence zones, including a great naval base at Hawaii. A total of 117 warships and 447 aeroplanes will manoeuvre from May 3 till June 10 in the North Pacific, these being the biggest manoeuvres ever held, engaging 55,000 men. The defence zones on the Pacific Coast are being equipped with thousands of long-range reconnaissance craft and torpedo-bombers, apart from fighters and observation ’planes. At the same time the organisation of civil flying is being rigorously tackled.