United States Strength
pp. 51-52 · Read in the full issue
In Pacific
NEWSPAPER correspondents at the end of July quoted astronomical figures to indicate the amount that the United States is preparing to spend on the construction of naval bases in the north-east Pacific—especially around Hawaii, at Midway, Wake, Johnston and Palmyra Islands, and at Guam. Con tracts totalling £42,812,500 have been let by the United States to cover the con struction of new air and naval base facilities on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
It was reported last year that the United States Congress would not agree to the fortification of Guam; but refer ences recently indicate that considerable work on fortifications is being done there.
Dr. Edward Jacomb, formerly of New Hebrides, who, on the outbreak of war, travelled from Fiji to England to offer his services to the Army Medical Corps, was rejected on account of his age. He thereupon returned to his old home in Jersey and was residing there when France capitulated and the Channel Islands were overrun by the Germans.
His friends at this end of the world await further news, with some appre hension.