Patrol System to Be Extended to B. Isles Tokyo, Sept. 12 Lieutenant-Commender Henry H. Smith-Hutton, Naval Attache of the United States Embassy, speaking during an interview in a purely ger, sonal capacity, expressed e belief that the term "American defensive waters," mentioned President in Roosevelt's radio address, probably meant the extension of the American naval patrol zone as far as Africa and the British Isles.
Lieut.-Comm. Smith-Hutton said that the term appeared to designate s flexible area which could be extended anywhere, for example, even to the Pacific if Nazi submarines were to menace shipping between the United States and Australia, Not to Pacific Waters The American naval officer pointed out that the term did not exist in international language. therefore was difficult for outsiders to attempt to specify the exact area which the President. meant.
He added that he did not think that President Roosevelt intended to apply "defensive wuters" to the Pacific, since at present the war wes going on in the Atlantic and not the Pacific.—Domei.
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