MASS FLIGHT

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1935, Page 5

MASS FLIGHT

U.S.A. NAVAL PLANES START

(Aus. and N.Z Cable Assn.) HONOLULU May 9. Forty-eight’ United States Nival patrol planes hopped oil at 7.1 S to day for Midway Island. They arc participating in the Naval manoeu-

The flight is being made bv two hundred officers and enlisted men. The armada travels twelve hundred miles to Midway Island, where it will join the section of the Fleet that L on gaged in manoeuvres in the neigh bouring waters. Admiral Reeves or dered the flight. All mor. ments of the planes will be k<*pt secret. The same secrecy cloaked the units of the Fleet, which steamed into the Pacific from United States harbours and Pearl Harbour naval base. SECRECY MAINTAINED. HONOLULU. May 10. An absence of reports of the progress of the mass flight to Mid wav Island led to a conjecture that the armada might have stopped short of that destination. Naval sources were silent, because the operation is shrouded in secrecy. However, in view of storm conditions near Midway Island, it is thought that the flight might been stopped at French Frigate Schoals five hundred miles from Honolulu. or at Pearl and Hermes Reef, one hundred miles this side of the Midway?.