White li British and American military and naval authorities main= tained strict silence, unimpeachable Jsourees said they learned that the officials tonight at a dinner given by the U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines fully eqvered the general defence situation in the Far" East, The discussion, they added, included possible Anglo-American collabora Mon. chiefly between the alr forces and navies. in the event of a conflict fu, the Pacife.
The "unimpeachable sources said tonight's dinner was extremely im= portant sino the officials were to cuss practical application of the pro= sent collaboration, to which Washington and London were reported have agreed, Mr, Francis B. Sayre, the High Commissioner, invited only Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Pophamn, head: of the British Far Eastern Forces, Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of the US. Asiatic Fleet, and Major-General George Grunert, Commander of the US. Army's Philippine Department, to this dinner.
Authoritative quarters attached the utmost importance because no other officials were invited following Admiral Hart's luncheon for the highest United States defence ofetas, incud-Gen. Grunert.
The British Air Marshall refused to discuss his conferences with the American authorities and told the United Press that he had "nothing to say.
US. Army and Naval officials were equally reticent, Air Marshal Brooke~ Popham, it was understood, would leave for Hongkong tomorrow. He spent part of this morning in touring
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