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NEW YORK: Oct. 10 (UP). Whipped into shape by four months of the most intensive maneuvres in its hlatory, or dered in the face of steadily deteriorating Japanese-Ameri- can diplomatic relations, the United States Fleet has girded Itself in an unprecedented man- ner to guard America's first line of defence in the Pacific.
October 14, 1940.
After months of intensive training
the U.S. Navy is
Johnston, and Palmyra Islands. Millions are being poured into development of air and naval bases there and preliminary work has been started on a base at Wake Island which lles weat of the Internationa!" dato: line. Far south of Hono lulu is the Samoan Base of Pago Pago also strengthened to face any eventuality.
READY FOR ANYTHING
Since April 3 what amounts Admiral James O. Richardson, to wartime secrecy has covered commander-in-chief of the fleet,
necessary supplies flowing into
At Hickman Field, huge army Pearl Harbour for the 100 or air base adjoining Pearl Har- the exact movements, of. the announced that it would remain more ships operating in the bour, millions are being spent. Across the Koolau Range from armada, but it is no secret that in Hawaiian water indefinitely. Hawaiian region........
Gunnery practice has been... Where the fleet units, go while Honolulu, and Pearl Habour, at the fleet is prepared for instant action in that area.
intensive. One gunnery school on active duty never is revealed Kaneohe Bay, the navy la com- "Ship for ship, cur navy is was conducted despite the fact but they are absent two and pleting work on another air the equal of any in the world," that a considerable amount of three weeks at a time on occn- base.
naval authorities assert con- overhaul work was under way sion, indicating the scope of The pleture thus presented is
lands
HITLER'S DWINDLING
OIL SUPPLIES
fidently. They hope that the at the time, and required much their activity, Carriers are re- one of definite war time acti- naval construction programme overtime labour by mechanics ported unofficially to be esta vity. It bears the significant will make it the equal of any to keep participating planes and blishing an "outer patrol," well distinction, however that its beyond the range of patrol directors consider the existing combination of navies which the ships in operation.
A fundamental in U.S. Flect bombers flying from the air base establishment efficient and fair- fortunes of history might turn
ly complete in itself. America against it.
operations is to keep gunnery at Pearl Harbour."
Screening the Hawailan. Is is ready for anything at its Ashore in Hawaii, where the at a peak. Officers believe that
proper United
its no other naval gunners in the
are Midway, strongest bastion in the Pacific. States maintains greatest single concentration of world-with possible exception' army power, troops are equally of the British-can approach on the alert. Unobstrusively, the accuracy of American crews. but continuously, sentries patrol The efficacy of American paval all important communication bombing long has been esta-
blished.. and transport lines.
Large
have appropriations
One maneuver which has con- been made to construct under- tributed to the efficiency of ground storage facilities on American naval gunnery has Oahu, but as yet no public an- been adoption of "offset firing" nouncement has been made of practice. Ships fire broadsides ench plans for underground plane apparently directly at
simulated hangaza. In view of the flexi- other, under fully
time conditions. Crews ble state of defence preparn- war tions, however, it may be as appear to aim their weapona
The British blockado is da-
Russia, true, produces some. sumed that plane storage will straight at designated friendly
ships. The secret priving Germany of many vital 30 million tons per annum, but be provided un-
is that the gun products. The sort of difficulty she has little to spare for ex- derground if the)
sho is up against can be well port. Moreover, the British Air sights are cor- army and navy
rected, so that illustrated with reference to oil. Force has been concentrating on command agree
the shots actual. This fuel is not only essential for the destruction of oil in re- that such facili-
ly clear the tar- war; it is a vital material in in- servoirs, and of Germany's oil ties are advisa-
get by entirelydustry and transport. Without it producing and refining plant. safe margins, the whole of Europo's economic As a result both stocks and pro- ble.
activity, as that of all módern ducing capacity are being steadi- countries, would be crippled.. ly diminished.
In a normal year, Germany
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By Wendel Burch United Press Staff Correspondent
*
now is
By WALTER HILL,
.
Industry and Trade Editor of "The Economist"
countries under German control and of the rationing of the re- maining neutrals, all non-Euro- pean sources of supply are now. closed to the Nazis.
Bombers maintain unbroken The island of Oahu neutrality patrols for hundreds stocked with more war ma- (including Austria, Czecho- Even if some of the oll-pro- of miles off the Hawaiian terials than at any time in re-slovakia and Nazi-occupied Po ducing countries were willing to consts. Battleships, cruisers, ONE of the most interesting destroyers and aircraft carries Cent history. Unofficial sources put in to the Pearl Harbour say that adequate ammunition and controversial aspects in con- naval base on Oahu, near Hono- is on hand at the vast Lualuslci nection with the evacuation of lulu, for maintenance and re- depot and other storage centres British women children pairs, then depart immediately to last the fleet through any con- from the Colony is that relating on further "maneuvers". This ceivable operation. The navy to the financial liability of has been the order of activity supply system has been taxed to the Government. It is be- for the fleet since May 16, when the utmost to keep oil and other
and
coming generally agreed that the decision to send away the feminine and juvenile members of the community, is justified, in view of the deplorable state of unce of uncertainty which exists in the Far East. Should the Colony become involved in war. fare, every man would prefer to know that his wife and children were spared the horrors andl hardships which would inevit- ably occur. Men who have al- ready seen war have no doubt as to the wisdom of those who ordered the evacuation.'
The problem at the moment la to what extent financial relief (or aid) should be provided in order to maintain men's wives or families, or unmarried wo- It would per- men, overseas. haps be advisable to indicate that owing to the country being at war, there may not be any liability. The defence of the Colony comes first, and if that is in any way to be embarrassed by the presence of women and children, then common prudence clearly indicates that they must depart. It must be admitted that those who are able to ac- cept the advice and quietly fade away at their own expense, may be in the minority. For the others, provision of free passages. is not only reasonable, bụt essential.
It is, however, the problems which confront people of meagre, means upon arrival in a strange. country, which must exercise the mind of officialdom. In some cases grants should obviously be made, but it might
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land) needs about 8 million tons supply Germany, they could of oil. France requires some 7 scarcely do so. United States million tons, Italy 3 million, tankers have been prohibited Rumania 1.9 million, Holland from entering the war zone, and 1.6 million, Sweden 1.2 million, Britain is now in control of Denmark 0.9 million, Belgium virtually all the free tanker 0.7 million, Norway 0.6 million, tonnage of the world. The con- Switzerland 0.6 million, and trol of the world's free tanker Hungary and Yugoslavia 0.5 tonnage has made the blockade million. Altogether, these coun- doubly effective. tries normally use 26 million Already the Nazis. have tons of oil per annum..
compelled to prohibit the use of nil But they can produce nothing in the countries under their control like this quantity of oil, and except for essential purposes. But Europe as a whole normally has by more than about one-third, le. they cannot possibly cut consumption to rely on imports for the bulk from 20% million tons per annum of its needs. Moreover, the to about 174 millions, without and greater part of these imports is seriously dislocating industry derived from distant sources of transport. There still rematas a de- Aciency of at least 5 million tons supply.
and probably, inore. And this de- Germany herself is a large ficiency is increasing with the steady producer of oil, thanks to her destruction of German refining plant intensive effort to make up for by British air raids,
the paucity of her mineral oil Indeed, unless Germany can secure resources by the development of access to non-European-sources of production from coal and by supply by the winter, industry and other methods. But even on transport in the countries under her hegemony will be crippled, and the the most favourable assump miliary and economic strength of tions, her output cannot exceed the Nazis will be sapped. Stocks, it 5 million tons per annum for is true, may still be fairly substen- some time to come. before the winter in so far as they tlab But these will be exhausted Rumania, Europe's biggest are not destroyed by British bombers. producing country, can supply, P
elightly more than 6 million tons MENA
Apart from. ··Russia's resources, per annum. But the greater which will scarcely be made avail- part of Rumania's output has able to Germany, the only other hitherto been exported by ges, sources of supply which could be and it is very doubtful whether reached from Germany, without the need of crossing large expanses of sufficient transport facilities are water are Iraq and Iran. avallable to distribute all the oil see me wh that she can spare to Italy, Ger- Iraq produces about 4 million tons many and the other countries of oll per annum, the whole of which I run by, pipe-line to the under the control of the Nazis. Mediterranean coast through Syria Lastly, the combined output of and - Palestine, Iran can produce tons i per Albania, France and Hungary more than 10 million scarcely reaches one million tons annum. Access to these two sources per annum. of supply would, thus solve the Nazis difficulties, always provided
In the most favourable condi- that they can transporthe Deat
tions the Nazis can therefore Italy's offensive in the Near secure no more than about 12 may not be unconnected with Ger- million tons per annum for dis- man plans to secure these supplies. To reach them across the Dardanelles tribution among the countries would meet with the resistance of under their control. Until re- Turkey and, probably, Russia. This cently these countries have been may be the reason for Italy's at able to secure imported supplies, tempt to get control over the Red part of which found their way that route is a thorny one. And the. Sea and the Suez Canal But even into Germany and Italy. British Navy is still in the Mediter-
During the first five months rancang
year.
destroy all the equipment; this could not be replaced for many months.
* BERLIN, Aug. 29-After a mass teat by 200 shapely legs,
of the current year, for example, German industry claimed a new triumph recently mosquito-
the United States alone exported were to reach Iraq's oil wells, they But even if the Nazis and Italians proof stockings.
8,868,000 barrels of oil to Spain would be unable to benefit from be as well to make it unmistak appears to be justified. The
w to be d ably clear that such grants are same attitude should be adopted The test has just been finished by against 2,138,000 barrels during them for a long time to come. First, entirely of a compassionate to unmarried women or widows, Hundred pretty frauleins wearing the corresponding period last there would be sufficient timb to nature: If grants are to be The measure of assistance must play suits and the insect-proof American exports to Spain of Secondly there would be time to de- made for the duration of the depend upon the financial posi-hostery at Wansee, Berlin's vacation the vital lubricating oils, of stroy the pipe-lines to the Mediter war, it is essential that the most tion of the individual, and must playground, where mosquitos have which Germany was short, were careful investigation should first be adequate, but not excessive pren living, well for years. The be made as to the financial posi. It matters not whether the testers sald, even the biggest and most
those concerned. Many money had to be found by the experienced mosquito was complets
ed the Imperial or the Hongkong, Gov. ly baffled.
ernment, it will still come out of The factory thalats that during the the pockets of the taxpayers/ Wanted telo áll the girla", "ehcaped," If at the conclusion of the war, ex
and
the Axis Powers can be made to an one leg foot the bill (as they rightly. Fother
ofd)wall will be well
Leg
though Stukas had
whacky renean,
Indeed, the prevention of a serious
(on the
January-May this year than last. oll, shortage next winter: pores an There is more than a presump awkward problem for the Nort tion that part of this oll found rulers. Moreover, the dimeulty its way into enemy hands, duction and transport wh
maintaining Europe's Indust
aggravated by the But as a result of the exten- million tons of con sion of the blockade at the be Italy and other countries)
normally sent to Fran ginning of August to all the the Nazll now hold sway.