U.S. NAVAL PATROLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 9

U.S. NAVAL PATROLS

CALIFORNIA COAST *

MOVEMENTS OF JAPANESE SHIPS \

(Received February 3, 11.45 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, February 2.

Mr. Byron Scott, a Californian member of the House of Representatives, who is also a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, told the United Press that he had received unverified information that the recent naval patrols off the California coast were connected with an attempt to locate the whereabouts of two Japanese battleships of which the United States fleet had lost track. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations,- in a statement to the United Press, said: "The manoeuvres were not connected with the movements of any Japanese warships. They were routine exercises planned a long time ago. We have not known the whereabouts of units of the Japanese fleet except those on the China coast We know where those are because our naval units occasionally make contact with them, but we have no way of knowing where other units are." ;