Evening star., 1940-05-03
Hudson Bay Pictured as Perfect Base
For Enemy Flyers to Launch Attacks
Steps to Cut Menace
Suggested by Engineer
In Book Just Published
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
North America can be attacked
tomorrow. Canada can be smashed
into helplessness at one blow. The
United States could hardly be
quickly vanquished, but her boasted
security is nothing but empty conf
dence that could be exploded with
terrifying consequences and this
may happen with the next rising of
the sun"
This Jeremiad is preached by H.
Dyson Carter, Winnipeg consult
ing engineer and author, in Sea of
Destiny" just published.
The sea he speaks of is Hudson
Bay, which he calls Americas back
door, wide open and inviting any
enemy.
Mr.. Carter's book is based upon
personal observation and study, but
he says experts have agreed on
many of his conclusions.
Defended BY Pistol.
Hudson Bay" he says, is the sea
and the coast our admirals forgot
on paper Hudson Bay is the per-
feet attack base from which raiders
can paralyze the nerve centers of
all Eastern and Continental
America.
East, West and South, We. are
secure, provided our one-ocean Navy
Is not divided by a double attack.
P,1t tho rort,ar,, Gao u-itJ, O mo CT
line that is as long as Atlantic or
Pacific shores, is defended by an ice
breaker and a polceman's revolver"
Mr.. Carter says hostile craft,
loaded with knocked down airplanes,
could enter Hudson Strait with no
opposition whatever" close the strait
and establish bases for assembly of
the planes.
At what home base would the en-
emy outfit such an expedition in
time of war? BY what route would
the ships reach Hudson Strait, evad-
ing the allied patrol in the ocean
approaches?
Such questions" contends Mr..
Carter, 'are those of naive naval
college cadet, of one unacquainted
with the history of the World War
and with subsequent world political
developments.
World War Bases Recalled.
"HoW was the German Navy able
to maintain secret submarine re-
fueling and restocking bases in every
ocean during the entire four years
of the first struggle, and long after
German warships had been secured
from the seas? How is it possible
for Hitler's undersea fleet to repeat
that history now?
1.-TWO elementary truths are suff-
Client: The oceans of the world are
very large; international Fascism
has powerful friends in the most
unexpected places"
Mr. Carter's book was written be-
fore Germany invaded Denmark and
Norway. 1t is made more thought
provoking by the fact that Green
land, a Danish colony, is within easy
striking distance of North America.
President Roosevelt, Mr.. Carter
points out, promised to defend Can
ada with all of the resources at his
command, should the Dominion ever
be threatened.
But the truth is that the United
States could no more rush to the
defense of Canada than to the de-
tense of her own Pacific Coast, if
that coast had no fleet, no planes
and not a single shore battery
Carter's Conclusions.
AS to steps that should be taken
to lessen the menace of Americas
fourth coastline, Mr.. Carter sug-
gests:
/. Seal Hudson Strait with mines
during the winter months.
2. Erect coastal Notifications at
two or three strategic points facing
the entrance channels.
3. Assign a squadron of suitably
armed ships to permanent patrol
and anti-submarine duty in the
approaches to Hudson Strait.
4. Establish extensive air patrols
throughout the coastal and inland
regions.
S. Set up a chain of air bases
south of the uninhabited northland
and fringing the settled regions of
Canada, where large fleets of the
fastest attack ships can be held in
readiness for alarm from the north
ern patrols.
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