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•USTIUUAN AND N.Z. OAUT.It ASSOCIATION 11A W AIIA X DEF EX C ICS. NEW YORK. April 29. The Administration will ask Congress for increased appropriations to strengthen the defence of Hawaii as the result of the capture of Ohau by the attacking naval and air ileus. Secretary Weeks’ recommendation in the last annual report for better preparbdness at the cross-roads of the Pacific will ho put in the form el an urgent demand in the next report. Officials outlined that the most moiled reform, on flic basis of Oahu’s capture, was an immediate increase of the island’s permanent air force, coupled with increased artillery and infantry forces. Military experts and flying officers nro agreed the disparity in the air force largely accounts for the capture and recommends an increase from forty airplanes to one hundred.
It is slated the Hawaiian -lefene.'s cannot he made adequate until Ibeic are as many planes permanen'Ty stationed at the Island as could he put into the air by a hostile tlect. .STERLING.
NEW YORK, Aprtl 29. Sterling closed at 4 doll-trs Sl.'io cents.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1925, Page 3
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