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UNITED STATES' BEST
IS ROYAL NAVY
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DEFENCE
MORE will be needed to protect the American hemisphere than the two-
ocean navy the United States has ordered.
Wo nood air and naval bases in Central and South America, the co-operation of Latin- American nations in preventing the establishment of onemy bases in those regions, export naval staff work to operate officiently the vast naval force projected, and—at foost until this powerful fleat is built-friendly relations with japan and Russia in the Pacific.
By Rear-Admiral YATES STIRLING, Jr. (Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet, Now United Press Naval Critic).
fleet. Base facilities in Panoma therefore must be greatly increased. Additional locks for the canal are to The conviction that danger contracted for, leaving 415 warships column persuasion upon govern- be built, but this seems like putting threatens the Americas if the yet to be contracted for and bulit ments in sympathy with Nazism. all our eggs in one basket. The within the next seven years. Our Such contingencies we are recognla- Nicaragua Canal long has been re- British navy should meet defeat naval aviation strength today, is ing and preparing to block.
cognised as a vital need to give addi- is the reason for our aid in war about 2,000 planes. materials to Great Britain,
lonal passage to our feet between the oceans and should be built at
For more than a hundred pents the United States has looked upon the myal navy as a defence force for the Americas. To-day our rich our fleet faces the unknown threat Atlantic seaboard is unguarded, while of Japanese naval power in the Pacific Ocean.
NAVAL STAFF: It nocds reorganisation To make Urla fleet a formidable the most expert naval staff work is weapon in a vast aren of operation, There 13 ECTIOUS doubt needed.
whether the Navy Department is adequately organised to devise and We now have awakened to the carry through a successful plan to insecurity of our situation, and have give America assured security from decided to build a twostcran navy, attack by sea German staff work No longer
cun the United States was largely afford to trust its security In the cem of the German ariny's invasion Our naval staff of another nation, however of all of Europe. buras friendly, and it is determined to own work must surpass even that, a navy of its own capable of defendi-
our responsibilities
large, ing Amerlen
once.
A fleet, even of the size authorised, cannot make a successful fight with out supporting naval bases in both oceans. The United States is build-
The conference of the American Ing naval and air bases in the Puerto Republies in Havana has been con- Rico Area, which if strong and sidering a plan to prevent the trans-
Atted out, will
give fer of sovereignty in this hemisphere. mobility to our fleet, enabling it to Of course any action by the Ameri adequately defend American vital interests in
can Republics will be predicated upon their physical ability to defcal any attempt by the victors in this war to resist such a plan.
the Caribbean, and furnish naval protection to the Panama Canal,
PACIFIC DEFENCE:
responsible for the ruc- U.S. Navy can't go West called upon to furnish the llon's
bro
the work to be necomplished [J- ULTIMILAR
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United States noval power will be
share of naval and air strength for In the Pacifle Ocean, outside our
this purpose, Acknowledgment of for continental limits, we now have this fact by our neighbours to the and completed naval base in Hawaii and south should carry with it our right building one at Unalaska. Alaska, to require air felds in those coun- together with number of well located air bases on Pride Islands tries from which it would be neces- sary to operate our air forcen in and Islands of Alaska. These bases
defence of the Americas. The canal and will support our
air self and the fleet in transit will be the which power in the Eastern Pacific.
seriously jeopardised should Sueli have no bases, nor are any projected dictators be able to operate air forces
nutside our feet's scope of operations flying distance of the canal.
in the Western Pacie That aren is from those countries lying within
even Bermuda Additionally the exempt through the employment of a West Indies, the Islands of Curacao, mutile base carried in ships.
WAR FLEET: It must Trinidad, Barbadoen, Intrica
und
The recent authorisation by Con- gress enviaiona a Navy by 1047 con- If the British Navy is eliminated,
the following sisting of
fighting the first objective of the dictators ships: 35 ntleships, 20 aircraft may be to establish bases from carriers, 88 cruisers, 378 destroyers, to Attock out bemisphere and 180 Rubmarines, a total of 701 ters could be set up in the WILPAILIEN When all these ships are Iceland, Greeninad, Canada, completed, our warship tonnage will be about 3,342,000 ton In addition to there ships, there are to be 15 000 naval airplanen.
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from Petsamo
Francis McEachen of Los Angeles, former special correspon dent for the United Press during the German invasion of Norway, arrived in New York recently aboard the Finnish motorshop Mathilda Thorden, first vessel to sail from Petsamu, Finland, since the start of the Russo Finnish War Aboard the 6,000 ton ship, normally equipped for 20 passengers, were more than 200 persons returning to or seeking refuge in the United States In the following story McEachen describes the trip home, tells what is now happening at Finland's Arctic purl and outlines conditions in northern Scandinavia.
N June 21 the Mathilda Į
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Thorden poked its trim grey From inic tu time 12. POAS เร่ nose out into Petsamo Fiord and and gas the start of
dymunite drowns ont all less sounds.
Wat is houded north toward the Pole new quayside
and the open sea.
all
The 6,000-tom: Finnish motorstrip. through the still water under i Sun that never seks, beneath sheer barten rock walin From which Dư Finns had blasted space for the dải k it had just left, carrying a cargo of Tear and hope.
On the right, as I left Petsatsi Flord, were Russian motiva
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lelt was German-occupied Norway, and presumably, units of the German Navy
Beyond, on the course to Ainerica,
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tet hoss PNINIRA for Swedish and Ph
good d the niy pot Through which trend and other sup
11003 be brought
that part northern Swindonavin wash stil romankly free
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have S.A. bases
Our own defence, as well as that of the hemisphere, to a great extent depends upon Central and South American co-operation. The United States must insist upon obtaining the olarve mentioned air bases. A re-
fusal by any country, from which the canal can be threatened by air, must be considered a hostile act by the United States and the other re- pubdien, sad appropriate action taken by them to force requiescence.
of Norway a cruk mulhern division that they were to fight no mure,
Than free Use: of naval ports in
to rent witnessed then gloan and heard the use republics
and refuet With u remarks they made
Har warships in an emergency is a Bundy matter, J1 British consi| "must" that should be assured at the Leteral l
territorul Havana Conference. If the Panama 1 new an a Norwegian act- +1912 is blocked by hostile action, Norwegian Jake tu nuvy will be forced to use the I sent my story Straits of Magellan route between m from Rovaniemi and went on to the oreans, and for this long cruise Petsuzno to wait for about nome. our whiships. will require Int
facilities
palatie 147 17 Juny
th of Petsamo
Larut Hagnar Christopherson, now | America,
inny ports in South
at Balls Inland, bad worked his way A translater for or from Oslo
Our war feet must be a mobile Bratash consular ports in Norway, he four; for the area to guard is farge. had been in the Nm wegan muted Air mobility throughout the entire In the German entered, an find I
Ich which our novy Is respon- The navy a Iritish nalije t, 'uble is a prime necessity.
as concentraling upon the provision of large land-based naval senplines. Both of us were alated for intern- !It is for these that nur many niu wend ati Petraumu My
These great planes aredentials Flours are needed.
weak north fed to Sweden
ted in telease He escaped by with a wing spread of up to 250 feet, de adding he araburts and actining Carrying binge loads of bombs and ample gun armament, when in num-
another fetitaly.
For Kant Singer and li wile. Pebanu was the last avenue of us- kurpes Singer, a Jew, had gone to Austel beform the 21:
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de letre agalus Nazism While le was there, his wife with Sep 14141 iconcentration catsip in Germany
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and strategically well based an be more formidable than even submarines against an enemy's feet. Four objective should be to maintain arcos where a superiority in all
where sovereignty exists and may surface fleets must operate. The lass if such air superiority to this country would be fatal.
The reconstruction of Petsomo, harbour and its extension for 10 She Bally was released and they Sweden, Gothenburg. miles along the western side of need
where he published an anti-Pascist the Ford is being financed in paper and wrote anti-Pasrist dunks of the British contraband control part by Sweden.
Following the German sccupation of were operating.
Now way and the resulting mcrease Acres of new barracks, built off thį man
pressure
Sweden,
was the ocean region in which ships
In
rumour
ALEX
Long-range submorines to make
sea areas dangerous to a for re wepers for a nation or the (defensive, as we would be.
Our naval strategy under present naval conditions seems to insist upon keeping our fleet in the Pacific area. 1 Britain meels defeat, our fleet hould be brought to a central posi- arm in the vicinity of Panama.
the Mathilda Tburden's hold, ; taw newly cut wood, have already (Singer was arrested and many of his according to unconfirmesi
been thrown up to anise the 2,000 books were destroyed. whispered from passenger te passen work on the project and new strue!
Finmish soldiers and carpenters at
The Finish volunteers, some 57 of Ker, were 24 large boxes of Swedish
tures are springing up daily There them from the United States, gold consigned to the United Staten,
aren't more than is dozen wonen here by dievous routes to await the richi prize for any nation that the entire area
Mathilda Thorden's sailing. might seize it.
Japan. Hushed with military suc The 200 of us who saited abouret | All of us were weary, sorsie to the and wife for Amerka to make jress, appears at present too arrogani Straight north the întin ship' the motorship had reached Petsamo pogil of exhaustion, when the sluga
Frum 11 well recognised sailed from northern Scandinavia's | ench its his own deyinus way
passed quavantine and coune in sight (5)
Japanese source IL is learned that I had been in Tunison when the of the Statue of Liberty. 4s port, holding only present ice-free
the Japen would
the Insist, if
inter- word ve ti offers and men Manhattan skyline
national concessions at Shanghai and Tientsin are returned to China, that They be taken over by the Japanese
This will not be satisfactory for it will mein Merafly giving them to Japocr.
an undeviating course, Between the Russian mines 10 miles to the PLANT and the area of German contrul lu miles to the west.
FUNNY SIDE UP
Once clear of those hazards the Mathilda Thorden swung west, then south-west, LLTHE passed 40 miles below the south- ern coast of British-occupied Iceland, running the gauntiet of control vessels plying the Allan- tic between that island and the Faeroes.
During the entire 12 days the 200 passengers aboard the Mathilda Thorden-refugees, diplomats, rt- turning journalists and more than 100 Finnish volunteera frum the United States and Canada-did nut sight a single vessel of any kind, merchantman or warship.
The little ship docked, at New York on July 3. The contrast be- tween what it found on arrival and what it had left can hardly be imagined.
never
Petsamo never was a bustling city. It never had anything remotely re- sembling a skyscraper. It even had a wharf worthy of the nome. And what improvements it did possess were burned to the ground when the Finns left and the Russians come in.
Now that the Flons have returned, however, Petsamo is, experiencing a mushroom growth and the sound of hammers and saws and the screech of the harbour's slogie derrick rever- berates between the rocky walls of the Flord for 24 hours a day.
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"He's the new rookie
By Abner Deanted government at Nanking.
ABWER DEANING
· I'm teaching him the business!”
GERMANY: A greater threat than Japan
But our greatest threat is Ger- inary, therefore our policy should be to maintain good relations with both Japan and Russia. Russia and Japan are traditional enemies which should make that policy all the easter. In Japan's recalcitrant mood and with her nazi-like threata, It might be well for America ·
to make
willnderstand that we never
her conquesta China nor any projected invasion in the South Seas. It Japan then wishes our friendship she must ac- cept it on that basis. We would like to be friendly, with Japan and harmonise, our reciprocal trade re- lations, but Japan must realise that our friendship for her' is more im portant to Japan than is Japan's friendship for us.
Great Britain's agreement to close the Burma Road was a gesture to- wards Japan at a critical moment when the latter seemed inclined to- wards the axis powers. Our stale department disapproval of Britain's action was upon the basic grounds of keeping open useful trade routes. Chiang Kai-shek's last resort from which to obtain wor supplies is now Russia. This may bring about con- tention between Japan and Russia and ense the situation between Japan and both Great Britain and the United States.
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