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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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British Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham arrived in Manila on April 2 with staff to confer with US Adm. Thomas C. Hart on Far East defense, after visiting Netherlands East Indies; plans to continue to Hong Kong.
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It was said authoritatively that on his way to Manila Brooke-Popham and his associates visited the Netherlands East Indies for conference with defense leaders there.
Conferences here were expected to take in the entire problem of defense from the Netherlands East Indies, through Manila, to waters farther north.
Brooke-Popham and the other officers, including Maj. Gen. Richard H. Dewing, his chief of staff, landed at Cavite, the U. S. naval base near here on Manila Bay, in a four-motored British seaplane from Singapore.
They are to continue on to Hong Kong, tomorrow or Friday to survey the situation there.
The Hong Kong visit will conclude a series of inspection trips by Brooke-Popham to British empire defenses throughout the Far East.
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Manila
Event Date
April 2
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conferences on far east defense covering netherlands east indies through manila to northern waters; continuation to hong kong for inspections.
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham arrived in Manila with staff including Maj. Gen. Richard H. Dewing, landed at Cavite naval base from Singapore, to confer with Adm. Thomas C. Hart on far eastern defense after visiting Netherlands East Indies; plans to proceed to Hong Kong tomorrow or Friday to survey situation there, concluding inspection trips to British empire defenses in Far East.