DEFENCE OF AMERICA
CO-ORDINATION OF SERVICES AIR AND SUBMARINE BASES i (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON. Feb. !8 Defence developments to-day include a favourable report by the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on a bill seeking authority for an appropriation of 52,000,000 dollars for air and submarine 1 bases at Guam and lo other points in the Pacific and Allantic. Also, a bill was introduced by Senator King seeking tlie co-ordination of the Army, Navy and Air Corps under a single department of national defence. Proposals were made by members in the House of Representatives and tlie Senate that the United states should take possession of Wrangel Island, near Alaska, now held by Soviet Russia, for use as “a stopping place in the chain of American air dcI fence stations." | Another development was that an announcement that 67.000 troops would participate in extended man- [ oeuvres in the east this summery
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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