From: Panama (Akiyama)
To: Tokyo
October 2, 1941
J-19
#190 (2 parts complete)
1. Since the recent shift
in military aviation efforts to the Pacific Area the "Panama Air
Depot" located at France Field was transferred to Curunda Heights
(immediately adjacent to Albrook Field).
2. Rear Admiral SADLER,
Commander of the 15th Naval District, since the extensive activities on the
Pacific end of the Canal, made public on the 1st a statement to the effect that
because of the increase of naval supplies a four-story warehouse built on pier
18 (it will be completed the middle of November), the ammunition unloading pier
(west of pier 18) consisting of 32 buildings, and the existing buildings in the
neighborhood of the Balboa dry dock would all be taken over as warehouses.
Furthermore, the petroleum supply tanks at Boca on the Pacific side and at Mt.
Hope (the railroad junction from which the line branches to Colon and Ft.
Randolph) on the Atlantic side (recently it is believed that these tanks have
been camouflaged) have been taken over.
3. There are intelligences
at hand concerning the construction of a food storage depot at Corozal which
would contain sufficient foodstuffs to supply the Canal Zone for a six-month
period, even though shipping routes between this point and the United States
are severed.
ARMY 23699 Trans. 10-20-41 (2)
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.)