TRINIDAD BASES
AGREEMENT WITH UNITED STATES
ORIGINAL PROPOSALS ACCEPTED.
SACRIFICES BY ISLANDERS INVOLVED.
ißy T^lpgraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. January 11.
The Colonial Office announced that final agreement has been reached on the sites for United States naval. aihny and air force bases in Trinidad. They comprise 11 square miles for a naval base on the island's north-west peninsula and 18 square miles in the centre of the island for the main army and air bases, with a small area elsewhere for an auxiliary airfield, supply wharves, water supply’ and recreation facilities.
The original United States’ proposals seemed io involve a disturbance of the normal life of the community and put the naval base on a she which comprised access to the island's chief holiday ground.
The Trinidad Government suggested alternatives \yhich the United States regretfully rejected, and therefore Britain, with the full concurrence of the Trinidad* Government, accepted the original proposals, but pointed out that they would involve sacrifices by the islanders.
The United States readily gave an assurance to do its utmost to minimise disturbance to the community. It is announced from Washington that a party of United States regal experts will go to England shortly to draft the final leases for all the bases.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 3
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