AMERICA’S WESTERN DEFENCES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 7

AMERICA’S WESTERN DEFENCES

SAFEGUARDING THE PACIFIC IMPORTANT PART FOR ’PLANES (By Telesrraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received May 9, 9 p.m. NEW YORK, May 9. America’s western defences are being developed along a 5000-milc line cutting from north to south across the mid-Pacific and anchored by five islands, says the Washington } correspondent of the New York Her- s ald-Tribune. These outposts repre- 1 sent the defence eyes rather than j strongholds. E The general programme proposes t seaplane bases, starting at Dutch i Harbour, Unalaska and Kodiak. The I line for which patrol ’planes will be ] responsible runs south 1600 miles to i Midway Island, thence south-west a > thousand miles to Wake Island, *i thence 1800 miles south-east to Can- c ton, thence south 700 miles to Pago Pago. Active naval work at Midway Island is also ordered and the same at Wake Island. Later, with good landing harbours equipped with powerful radio stations, patrol ’planes will be able to cover a long line cutting the Pacific and spotting foreign I naval movements in advance. } I NEED FOR BETTER WORLD ( ORDER ROOSEVELT'S BROADCAST INTERNATIONAL TRADE IMPORTANT Received Mav 9, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 9. President Roosevelt, in a message read by Mr Cordell Hull and broadcast to Latin America, declared that there was need for a joint effort ia ; constructing a new and better world f order. r Mr Hull said that the United States j reciprocal trade treaty programme was the United States contribution to 1 a need for world economic co-opera- . tion. “In the world to-day there not a more potent, force for economic 5 wellbeing and social stability than the expanding of international trade , functioning on a basis of mutual advantage, fair dealing and non-dis- C criminatory treatment,” he said.