Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1934, Page 47

World-Wide Spy System Keéps America Informed on Military Developments (Continued From First Page.) North, along the Atlantic Coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, Piname 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 a chain of Pacific air stations. That other nations view with sus- gi-czlon the upbuilding of our defense es in the Pacific and the conse- quent enlargement of our intelligence net in that quarter is revealed in the Coast Artillery Journal's review of an article by Maj. Baron von Bulow in the German Luftwehr. He charges that the air policy of the United States is to turn China into a formidable air power and by means of a well-de- veloped system of airports obtain a chain of “points d’appui” in the in- terior of China which would ma- terially enhance America’s influence in the military and political affairs of China. Moreover, he interprets Col. Lindbergh's extensive air voyage last year and his important conference Wwith 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 Von Bulow is more concerned over the airplane development as an extension of America’s 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 Hawali and Guam | was part of a plan to establish a 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- proaching naval fleet or air armada and flashing warnings in all directions. It may be news to Japan that it was intelligence net information that Japan was preparing air bases in the mandated islands of the Ladrone archipelago, particularly the Island of Saipan, an hour’s flight from Guam, that determinel 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. C. Hooper, U. S. N., director of naval | communications, says that service is ates abroad to get inside information as to diplomatic and military plans, so are foreign military, naval and air attaches in Washington the official seekers of information for their re- spective governments. Of 55 foreign embassies in Wash- ington, 42 are recorded in the diplo- matic list as being without military, naval or air attaches. The 13 others, with their complement of attaches, is as follows: Great Britain has a military, naval and air attache, with an assistant naval attache and three attaches un- designated. Japan has a military and an assistant military attache, a naval attache and two assistant naval al taches, with nine undesignated at- taches. Russia, the Union of Soviet Republics, has both a military and a naval attache, each with an assistant, also three attaches undesignated. China has one military attache and three undesignated. Italy has a naval, an air and a military attache; France a naval, a military and an air at- tache; Germany has a military and a naval attache, Spain a military and a naval attache, Hungary & military at- tache, Peru a military attache, Argen- tina & naval attache, ldexico a mili- tary attache with an assistant and Cuba a military attache. America’s intelligence net at home, consisting in peace time of the activ- ities of the Coast Guard, Life Saving Stations, Light House Service and plane service, is only the nuclei of a more comprehensive system to be put in operation upon the first sign of war tension. In that moment, should it arrive, the Coast Guard, under a specific act of Congress now in force, automat- ically becomes a part of the United States Navy, with its existing 240 active and 36 inactive units. Mean- while the Coast Guard is the eyes and ears of Uncle Sam along the American coasts and the Great Lakes border. All stations but one, Baratera, at Grand Isla, La., are telephone equipped, the personnel is well trained and alert. Plans for expansion of this service in the way of training volunteer civilian units so that in time of war they might act as instructors of newly organized units are now being formu- lated. It is also considered of great | value to equip many key stations with powerful search light units and sound in air detectors. So equipped, a highly efficient intelligence net would make not only the agency through which | it very difficult for an air armada to the Navy Department messages arc | reach our shores undetected. 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 lo- cated 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 30 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- | CALL FOR FREE FOOT TEST SLIM If your feet hurt, don’t guess as tothe cause. Let our Foot Comfort Expert determine it for you scientifically by the famous Dr. Scholl Foot Test. It costs ou nothing! We .fpcci-liu in Dr. holl’s Foot Comfort Service. —Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Dept. permanently located here. Fourth Floor, To Have Your Picture Taken in time to give for Christmas Large \X 11x14 size ol can give a photo- Sripyh’:‘f'your'mlf, but with onlya short time lefi.&on d better come in NO . anytime while shopping - 00 appointment is nee led. lovely 8x10 % pictures of you 4 low price. 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