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Sept. 7

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Oct. 2

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

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Sept. 29 Oct. 18

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WAR IN PACIFIC CERTAIN, SAYS

U.S.

ADMIRAL AND

PREDICTS OUTCOME

Rear-Admiral Tales Stirling, former chief of staff of the U.

S. Fleet and now United Press navul critic, fears" that a war"la the Pacific is inevitable.

He here discusses the relative naval power of Japan and *the United States, and picks the ultimate victor if a Japanese-

American war is fought

DUTCH M. T. B. DOWNS BOMBER

LONDON, Yept. 1 (Reuter)-—The crew of a Netherlands motor tor- | pedo-boat serving with the British Navy his shot down an enemy bomber into the sea.

An Admiralty communique" says that a motor torpedo-boat and a merchant ship were attacked by Nazi dive bombers, The Norwegian

sallors opened fire with tracer bul-

hits.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27-It seems carriers, modern destoyers, and evident that unless the United submarines, States and Japan can Commose Japan's naval advantage. Ites "their ever-mounting differences, principally in having her feet lets and registered number of the war in the Pacific, long pro- concentrated where she has decid- phesied by strategist economists, ed all her wars will be tought-in Is inevitable.

the Orlent. She has therefore ap plied herself to the building of many well-secreted" bases for war- ships and aircraft to support naval and air offensives, in those

DIPLOMATIC. TENSION Diplomatic tension between the United States and Japan, existing for several years, is the reason that the great preponderance of seas, our naval strength has been main- tained in the Paciic,

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Since Germany overran the Low Countries and defeated France, I'that tension has reached the breaking-point. The reason:" the rich Dutch East Indies and French Cochin-China. both coveted by Japan.

Shouid a Japanese-American war come, it would be a naval war laught mostly in the Orient. Bases are vital in naval and air warfare. and in a conflet with Japani, this country would have the initial dis- advantage which, however, would not necessarily be a fatal noe.

'A REAL PICTURE This is the picture of the oppos- ing fleets and bases:

The Pacific has been rec koned the hardest nut to crack for our navy in the event of war and it therefore has seem- ed essential that our fleet personnel acquire ali the knowledge and practice pos- sible through fleet operations in that ocean.

FLEET EXERCISES Our fleet in recent years has been almost continuously employ ad in strategical tactical war

games

One raider came down to sea level, touched water, rose again and then crashed into the sea,

..

planes and appropriate airbases for them will give Important aid to the feet in operations west of Hawail They have a flying range of about 1,300 miles, and the airbases at Midway, Wake and Guam give full mobility to these weapons.

If these bases can be held by our navy secure from cap- tare, they will form stepping -stones for these naval patrol planes to enable them to reach the Philippines, from where our fleet would operate in a war against Japan,

ULTIMATE RESULT.

in the Pacific centering around Hawall and our base at Unalaska, although the latter is still unfinished. These operations The ultimate result of a naval. have usually been of a defensive and air war, between Japan and nature against an attacking the United States, viewed against “enemy" fleet, and the operations the background of the two nations The United States Fleet of un-have never extended beyond the involved, would seem to be a vic- der-age ships in commission con- sists of 15 battleships, 37 cruisers, 5 aircraft carriers, 47 destroyers, 31 submarines. We have numerous over-age warships in the lighter categories

Our math fleet at present is in Hawalian waters, where a prst- class naval base at Pearl Harbor 13 available to support it. In ad- dition, a new base is being built at Datch Harbor, on the Alaska

international. dateline. the 180th meridian, longitude.

This entire area will be a bat- tleground In the event of war, and it should be familiar to our fleet. The reason our naval war-games have remained on this side of the 180th meridian in the past has been. so as not to unduly inflame the suspicious Japanese:

NAVY AIR ARM

tory for the United States.".

Japan, a strong military and naval nation's impoverished economically. while the United States. though not imbued with the martial spirit, is rich and has plenty of resources. Vapan also would in all likelihood be opposed by her traditional enemies-China and Russia.

The failure of Japan to acquire The navy air arm has become "sa and hold, by action of her war island of Unalaska. Both of these important that in any naval war fleet, the essential raw materials bases will be able to support the in the Pacific, our strength in the needed by her industries to main- air will be essential to success. In tain the efficiency of her fighting addition-to-planes-aboard-our-five-forces-would-in-time...encompass Airbases have been built or are carriers. long-rangi naval sea-her defeat.

feet.

*AIR BASES

being built on Midway, Wake, and Johnston islands in the Hawaiian area and on Kodiak Island and Sitka in Alaska. Canton island of the Phoenix group. Just south of! the equator; and Pago Pago, Samos, are also to be fitted as airbases.

Closely tied to the fleet at Hawall is the small fleet now in the Far East-actually only a de- tachment - consisting of one cruiser one squadron of over-age destroyers, one flotilla of over-age submarines, and one over-age nir- craft carrier

In the event of war, this weak detachment would he called upon to perform 3 herole task-to fight a delay- ing action against an enemy attemptinx

occupy the Philippines until

main our fleet could arrive,

NUMERICAL SUPERIORITY

to

At present, so far as is known due to Japanese naval secrecy. our navy has a numerical super- lority of 15 to Japan's 9 in bat- tleships. We have only equality, if not less, in cruisers, aircraft i

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