DEFENCE CO-ORDINATION
CANADA AND UNITED STATES PERFECT ACCORD REACHED (United Press Asn.--Elec. Tel. Copyright) SEATTLE, Sept. 22 The six members of the CanadaUnited States Joint Defence Board have completed their premliminary survey of the west coast defences from Sitka, Alaska, to the mouth of the Columbia River. Captain Harry Hill, the spokesman, said they had reached perfect accord on the co-ordination of the defences in the event of an emergency The United States Secretary of the Navy, Colonel W. F. Knox, told press interviewers that Hawaii would become one of the great military bas lions of the world. The Government was expending 80.000,000 dollars there, which would make it one of the world's most efficient and most compact armed bases. Pearl Harbour alone was a unique \ «se. witn plenty i room for a fleet the size of the present United Z rales fleet. The first batch of 300 children evacuated from Britain has arrived ia South Africa.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21225, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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