AIR PATROL
ON APPROACHES TO NEW YORK PRODUCTION OF PLANES TO BE EXPEDITED. STATEMENT BY MR KNUDSEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, December 14. The navy starts a daylight air patrol of New York’s sea approaches on December 15, supplementing the destroyer neutrality patrol. The patrol will extend 75 miles over the Atlantic, filling the gap heretofore existing between the shore and destroyer route. President Roosevelt inspected a site for a defence base at Abraham Bay, Mariguana, in the Bahamas. The Defence Production Co-ordina-tor, Mr W. S. Knudsen, when issuing a warning that the output of warplanes was 30 per cent below the earlier estimates,' called on industry and labour for more speed for the entire rearmament programme. The defence effort, so far, he said, was not satisfactory. The first half of 1941 was the crucial period. The War Department has ordered the mobilisation of 28,739 regular army reservists by February 15.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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153AIR PATROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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