MASS FLIGHT

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1935, Page 5

MASS FLIGHT

GREATEST YET U.S.A. Naval Planes (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 9 at 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. Alay 8. The United Press Association’s Honolulu correspondent states: Aircraft became the major factor in America’s peace-time war games in the Pacific to-day with a disclosure that forty-two fighting planes will attempt the greatest mass flight in history, as part of thenaval manoeuvres. The flight will involve two hundred officers and enlisted men. The armada is scheduled to take off at six a.m. to-morrow for a twelve hundred miles hop to Midway Island, where it will join the section of the tleet that is engaged in manoeuvres in the neighbouring waters.

While it is learned that Admiral Reeves ordered the flight, all of the planes will be kept secret. The. same secrecy cloaked the movements of all the units of the Fleet, which steamed into the Pacific from United States harbours, and Pearl Harbour naval base.