U.S. SEA FORCES POWERFUL
SECRETARY’S VISIT TO FLEET (Received September 15, 6.30 p.m.) HONOLULU, September 14. The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Frank Knox), after five days at sea with the battle fleet, Said that the American sea forces were the most powerful and most effective in the world. He declared that after his return to Washington he would do all possible to make Pearl Harbour the most impregnable bulwark of American defences in the Pacific. Colonel Knox added that he believed the army and air strength of the islands needed urgent expansion. He understood .that new bombers were being sent.
Colonel Knox will return to the United States by air on Monday.
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Southland Times, Issue 24232, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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