New York. Sept. 26.
The defences of Hawaii have been built up so strongly by the United States army and navy that today the islands are "impregnable" Joseph B: Poindexter, Governor of Hawaii, declared in an interview in this city.
The Governor told newspapermen that it was his personal opinion. that nation could take the islands added that if they were not impregnable now: they certainly would be when the present army and navy Building programme was finished. The Army authorities are now rushing to completion, the Governor said, a large military airport on Oahu island, where-20,000 soldiers were now stationed. x "T can't tread on the Stale Department's toes," the Governor said when asked what was the feeling in Hawaii about Japan.
Governor Poindexter said that a plebiscite would be held in He islands this November to decide whether to petition the Congress of the United States fór admission into the union as the forty-ninth state.—Reuter,
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