DEFENCES OF HAWAII.
NECESSITY FOR STRENGTHENING WASHINGTON, April 29. The Administration will ask Congress for increased appropriations to strengthen the defences of Hawaii as the result of the capture of :»vhu by the attacking naval and air fleets in the war games. The Secretary of War, Mr J. W. Weeks, made a recommendation in his last annual report for better preparedness at the “crossroads of the Pacific,” and’ they will be put in the form of an urgent demand in the next report. Officials have outlined the most; needed reform, as the result of the capture of Oahu, as an immediate increase in the permanent aif force at the islands, coupled with increased artillery and infantry forces. Military experts and flying officers l are agreed that the disparity in the air force largely accounts for the capture, and recommend an increase from forty airplanes to a hundred. It is stated that the Hawaiian defences cannot he made adequate until there are an many aeroplanes permanently stationed at the island as could be put into the air by a hostile fleet.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 5
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