Pearl Harbour has docks that will hold the biggest warships afloat, a first-class air base, fuel depots and what not, and big guns galore. In 1922 the American Government began building Pearl Harbour into a base capable of accommodating the whole haw, at a cost of some $43,000,000. Since then nearly every year has seen fresh improvements being made. The yearly cost is round $2,800,000, It is reported that a dock taking 45,000 ton warships is projected. A base subsidiary to Pearl Harbour is being constructed at another bay on the same island of Oahu.
The strategic importance of Midway and Wake Islands became noticeable when they were made ports of call for the American trans-Pacific ait service, in 1935. Both are.¢quipped as fayal air bases, and the improvement of Midway at a cost of $5,350,000 is planned.
It is puly 2,000] miles distant from Tokyo, and it would be easy to carry out air bombing raids on Japan from this island. It is also a relay point for the trans-Pacific cable.
From Hawaii southward to American Samoa, which has a naval base with wireless station and fuel and munitions depots, stretch Johnston, Howland, Jarvis, Baker, Canton, Enderby and other islands available as bases, forming a strategic chain that certainly will play an important All this forms scalene triangle some 15000 miles in length, which surrounds Japan from the north, east and south. In the southwest Britain has a strong fortress at Singapore, commanding the western gate of the Pacific, while the eastern gateway, the Panama Canal, is a stronghold of the American navy. part in future operations of the American navy in the Pacific.
Aeroplane Attack on Nearest to Japan in the north are the Aleutian Islands, and the Ameri-Government is stretching itself
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