Navy Takes Measures to Protect South Washington, Nov, 30.
Eight additional supplemental alr bases are being established by the United States Navy in the Caribbean and on the Atlantic seaboard' in connection with the neutrality patrol, it was understood here yesterday.
The new bases will be designed to supplement the present facilities and will be located at Long Island, Quonsett Point, N, Squantum, Mass, Jacksonville, abana River, and Key West, Florida, and Quantanamo and San Juan, Puerto Rica, It was estimated that the Long Island base will cost between $500,- 000 and $600,000, Each base will include one or two hangars, each large enough for a squadron of large patrol planes—United Press, No Convoy for Dutch Merchant Ships The Hague, Nov. 30.
It is learned semi-officially that, for the present, the Netherlands Government does not intend to provide a convoy for Dutch merchant ships.—Reuter.
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