JOINT INTERESTS
AMERICA & AUSTRALIA PACIFIC DEFENCE PROBLEMS. VIEWS OF MILITARY WRITER. By Telegraph—Press Assceiat ion—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.50 a.rn) WASHINGTON. April 22. In his evidence Ix’fore the Senate Nav.'il Affairs Committee Major George Fielding Elio!, an /Xmerican military writer, who served with the A.t.F. in the Work! War said: ’’Auntralia and America are in much the same l boat. Australia could .supply military, naval and air bases. The United States, could contribute funds for construction and maintenance. The United States is very much intci'ostod in Far Eastern siipplie. of rubber and tin." Major Eliot paid a tribute to the effectiveness of the British Navy and said he believed that the Allies held the advantage in Norway, because they were.' able- to transport troops and supplies mid Io challenge the Germans. Hiller's alternpts to maintain sea communicalions wiih Scandinavia would be disastrous. The British were eifect- ; vely i n lorn ipii ng cornm uni cations across the Skaggeral:. whore ii would bo useless lor Britain to risk capital hips.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 6
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169JOINT INTERESTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 6
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