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SIGNIFICANCE ICELAND

OF

OCCUPATION

NOT MISUNDERSTOOD

THE AMERICAN occupation of Iceland FLARES

ordered by President Roosevelt in his capa-

city as Commander-in-Chief of the armed IN HAWAII

forces in the United States is a stroke whose

significance has been universally appreciat- BLACK-OUT ed and whose boldness has been warmly wel- comed in this country, declares "The Times" in an editorial.

The defence of the main Atlantic routes, adds "The Times," is not purely a matter of Anglo-American concern. It is of vital inter- est to every country which possesses an Atlantic seaboard or whose ships sail the

ocean.

"Should the other arm of what President Roosevelt calls the 'Ger. man pincers movement against the western hemisphere' become menacing, and should the esta- blishment of further American bases be desirable in order avert it, Great Britain tainly be prepared to once again as she has done in the past and as Iceland has now done in the north," "The Times" add-

ed.

to

ANGELS IN

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will cer- Many famous British artists cooperate have contributed to a display of textile designs, notable for their originality, which are expected to help the export trade.

Anna Zinkeisen has

are now stationed within

realised In less than two years from the outbreak of war."

"The Times" continues: "This new instrument and symbol of American aid to Britain is an out- standing contribution to winning the war

and it is also a fresh land-mark of American policy.”

Lights were blotted out in the Hawaiian Islands soon after 9 p.m. recently, as residents, warned of cal enemy bombers, test- the approach of theoreti- ed a protected black-out.

Sirens, radio announcements and motor messengers heralded the approach of the 'planes.

Isolated hamlets of farthest North Kauai Island were darken- ed and, far south on Hawali, Japanese grocers extinguished their kerosene lamps. Lighthouse keepers doused beacons.

The black-out, part of the Army's spring war games, found soldiers manning observation lava peaks posts burrowed into

when attackers who, walling they came, dropped flares instead Blazed Again

of explosives. portrayed Then lights blazed again from Koko Head and "That American armed forces enchanting young women in unf-Kaena point to

500 form and called the design "An- another black-out, third for the miles of the British Isles in a gels in Uniform." It should appeal, islands in two years, was over.

Gov. J. B. Poindexter, in a measure of the colossal progress to young women in America who

radio are unable to wear uniforms.

Hawaii's broadcast, said There

are loyal to are badge designs for many racial groups

welcomed the op- silk handkerchiefs. Others show America and

fondly at portunity to cooperate. young women gazing

Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short, aeroplanes, and lovely new colour!

commanding the Hawaii Depart- mixtures have been introduced.

Women will be able to dress in 'ment, said the Territory "outdid” material bordered with tape mea-¦ itself.

Army 'planes had scattered sures a design by Eric Ravilious, which includes clocks and griffins, leaflets over the islands warning of the black-out and urging full and even boots.

The exhibition is at Manches-cooperation. Leaflets were printed in English, Japanese, Chinese, pressed far beyond the points ter Art Gallery.

Hawaiian and a Filipino dialect. of its consideration as a purely

During the black-out, civilian defensive measure.

controlled this year, 1,500 Red Cross workers set up emergency stations; motorcyclists patrolled highways; 100 civilian trucks equipped with emergency sup plies hastened to "bombed" sec- tions and black-out patrols were active.

United States comment on Ame- rican occupation of Iceland pro-

Nearer To War

MEAT MEN

Upon implications being WIN STRIKE

analysed, there is a widespread! encurrence in the belief that the United States has been brought

Strike of wholesale meat work- much closer to open war with ers which threatened to paralyse

Germany,

the country's meat has been settled.

distribution

Involving 2,500 men, the strike began affer dismissal of sixty

THEFT OF WREATHS

Leader writers of the Inter- ventionist newspapers

Chan Yet, 17, and So Yau, 20, Bound a be'l'ross ante emphasising Ice- men employed at a bombed Lon- were sentenced to six weeks' bard Mr. H. G. Sheldon, land's occupation as an

don depot. Thirty other depots labour by

K. C., this morning, for the theft sive action and urging similar came out in sympathy. and eptedy

to of wreaths from the Sikh Crema- action to

"The men have returned occupy Dakar and the Atlantic Islands. work," an official of the Trans- torium yesterday.

in First accused

seen was Even the normally non-inter-port and General Workers' Union

O'Brien Road with six wreaths. vention papers concede the wis- told the "Daily Mirror." dom of President Roosevelt's "The employers have conced- He admitted theft from a grave action for the purnoses of defence ed the four disputed points. All at the Sikh crematorium. Second of the western sphere but qualify notices are withdrawn. No. pay defendant was arrested inside the their approval by criticism that is to be stopped." Congress was not consulted.

The "New York Times" column- irt, Hanson Baldwin says: "The President's measures imply evi- dence of the Government's faten- tion to help Britain with military means."

Not Passive

The bases the United States is now establishing in, Tee'and should not be merely for passive defence, the "New York Times", writes. "

"What is most important about{ Iceland is that it is not merely a base for the defence of. Iceland itself but bases

for patrolling the

sea lanes,

Leonard Engel, in a New York newspaper, writes: "Iceland-can; also serve as an offenslye base for the Americans, now there as well as a defensive point.

"The coast of Norway Is 915 miles away. Four motored. ....bombara-can, reach that far.

"The United States, by occupy→ ing Iceland, has for the first time obtained a possible base for air action against Europe:"

Change in Tone

The usually non-interventionist "New York Daily News" BOYS: "The occupation relleves. British troops for service.esowhere und will facilitate the protection of] American 'shipments to Britain, I "We are glad the United States has occupied the place:"Reuter,

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