Similiar views were expressed by Mr, Roy" Howard, Chairman of the Board at the Scripps-Howard news: paners and Rear-Admiral Harry Yarnell, former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, the newspaper emphasized.
The "Asahi Shimbun" recalled that about the middle of last month, reports from the Vatican, credited the British Minister, Mr. Francis D. thorne with the statement that Britain intended to. lease the Phoenix, Gilbert und Solomon Islands in the Pacific og well as alr and navy bases and Australia to the sold Britain and America signed. a secret naval pact for the purpose of ereireling Japan at the time when Japan withdrew from= the London aval disarmament conference bomb plunged through promenade deck on the starboard side Janding in the provisions. store-
Commander J.C. Gould, master of the liner, declined to comment. on accident, merely remarking 0 Mich "Ineldents are' likely (0 ocettr tinder present' world conditions with, war going on in Europe and Chi Asked how he personally felt about the "matter, Commander Gould said Sontiary 15, 1996, The newspaper further noted the possibility of the Anglo-American Joint defence Zone extending not westward from Hawaii to Midway, Guam and the Philippines but south= wards to Canton, Samoa Islands, new Zealand, and Australia tence to the Netherlands East Indies, Singapore and Honkon
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