DUTCH EAST INDIES.
PACIFIC POWERS’ INTEREST. LONDON, April 13. According to a Tokio report, the Hochi Shim bun, in a.n editorial, says that if the Netherlands is involved the war will spread to the Pacific, because Japan will not allow the Pacific to be overrun by the British and United States navies. Naval experts in Washington state that in the event of an invasion of the Netherlands it may be necessary to base the bulk of the United States fleet at Hawaii in order to discourage a Japanese advance upon the Dutch East Indies. The Washington correspondent of tlio New York Times says that on the eve of the Senate hearing of the Navy Bill a sensational story was circulated there of a secret Japanese building programme, including eight, possibly 12, 40,000 to 50-000-ton dreadnoughts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 8
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135DUTCH EAST INDIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 8
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