FLEET TO REMAIN
U.S.A. Navy in Pacific ECONOMY DECISION NO BEARING ON FAR EAST kAuat. and N.Z. Cabt*) Washington, Sept. 30. Tli e Navy Department to-day aaitiouneed that tlie scouting fleet, comprising nine cruisers, thirty destroyers, eleven and one aircraft e.in'HT, will xoiriium in the Pacific for af least six months. Thus practically every fighting unit of the Navy will remain in the Pacific until tho summer.
Th© Navy Department, in a statement, said that the fleet, was remaining in tlio Picific to permit of a greater degree of fleet training and also to save considerable money in oil iucl.
tt is emphatically denied that tile decision lias any connection with t' ,H ’ Far Eastern situation.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 7
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