President Roosevelt has allotted $50,000,000 for immediate develop: ment of a chain of naval and air bases on sites recently acquired from Britain in exchange for destroy' announced Colonel Frank Knox, Navy yesterday.
tion of reserve forces also uncod by Colonel Knox, who stated that 6,000 of additional classes of naval and marine reserves should prepare for a call to active duty at any moment.
Additional reserves from New York and New Jersey also are belg mobilized for active duty wu destroyers on patrol in the vicinity bf the Panama Canal—Reuter.
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