Evening star., 1934-12-16
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North, along the Atlantic Coast, in
the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies,
Panama and Mexico. The latest plan
Is to bridge the Pacific and establish
a first line of defense bases in the
Far East, linked up with chain OF
Pacific air stations.
That other nations view with Sus-
picion the upbuilding of our defense
bases in the Pacific and the conse-
uuent enlargement of our intelligence
net in that quarter is revealed in the
Coast Artillery Journals review OF an
article by Mai. Baron Won Bulow In
the German Luftwehr. He charges
that the air policy of the United States
Is to turn China into formidable air
power and by means of well-de-
veloped system of airports obtain a
chain of points dappui" in the in
terror of China which would ma
terially enhance Americas influence
in the military and political affairs of
China. Moreover, he interprets Col.
Lindbergh's extensive air voyage last
year and his important conference
with Soviet authorities as an effort to
extend American airlines into Siberia,
which if accomplished, would, in his
opinion, result in the encirclement OF
Japan from the north. The fact Is
that Won Bulow IS more concerned
over the airplane development as an
extension of Americas intelligence
net than he is over the idea of the en-
circlement of Japan.
Fortified Air Bases.
Another European country claims
to have grapevine news that the flight
of American airplaneS from San Fran
cisco to Manila via Hawaii and Guam
was part of a plan to establish chain
of fortified air bases across the Pa
cific. Naturally, each base would be
an important link in our intelligence
net and would be equipped with every
facility for discovering either an ap-
preaching naval fleet or air armada
and flashing warnings in all directions.
1t may be news to Japan that it was
intelligence net information that
Japan was preparing air bases in the
inundated islands Of the Ladrone
archipelago, particularly the Island of
Saipan, an hours flight from Guam,
that determined the United States to
create a protective chain in the Far
East.
In this connection the importance
of our naval communication service
must not be overlooked. Capt. S. G.
Hooper, U. S. N, director of naval
communications, says that service is
not only the agency through which
the Navy Department messages art
flashed to vessels and naval stations
thousands of miles over the ocean, but
handles communications for practi-
cally every United States Government
activity. Moreover district communi-
cations officers are strategically To-
Gated to act as liaiSon officers, and the
service has on shore radio direction
finders and radio beacons, many of the
latter having sound and air signals
synchronized for distance finding
There is also one radio beacon sta
toin in the United States and 80
abroad equipped with submarine os-
cillator signals.
The foreign intelligence net, like
that of other countries, is linked with
our embassies, conSulateS, commercial
bureaus, naval stations and cruising
naval units. Military and naval at
taches, commercial agents, trade COM
missioners, consuls and naval officers
are all parts of the net system oper-
ating as do other nations in legitimate
channels.
And just as the United States oper-