U.S. Base At Midway
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 14.
rS construction of the American navy’s immense 2,000,000 dollar base at Midway Island, new western outpost of the far-flung defence scheme which centres upon the Hawaiian Islands, is half-completed.
Biggest job is the dredging of a deep enough harbour in the lagoon to per mit the entrance of submarines, mine craft, and destroyers and for anchor ages for squadrons of long-range navy bombers. (Within a year there will be two squadrons permanently stationed there for patrol work in the western skies.) The back of the job was broken this month when one of the navy dredges completed a channel into the lagoon which will permit it and another dredge
to continue work right through the on coming rough winter weather. This channel is 120 ft. wide.
Work started at Midway in May, 1938.
The first dredge started in October, 1938.
There are 300 men on the job, under supervision of the U.S. army engineer’s office, which built the Panama Canal.