An indication of the cooperation between the United States and the Anglo-Dutch authorities was the recent arrival in Manila of two US. Navy ordnance experts, They had been stationed in the NEI for ths past three months working out ordance problems, especially in. relation to submarines, of which both the Dutch and the U.S. have strong fleets in the Far East.
The two experts, it was understood also had instructed the merchantmen in the use of eq ment against magnetic mines as some such mines already had been discovered in the south Pacific, They were believed to have been dropped from German planes—United Press Orient Confident Singapore, Apr. 30, Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Popham, Chief of Britain's Par East Forees, today said that he was confident—laking into consideration the other side's difMlculties—of—the ability of the British troops here defend successfully the peninsula, Sir Robert said he was assured that the Netherlands "East Indies would "put up a good: show if} aitacked,"—United Press,
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