GREAT SECRECY
NAVAL MANOEUVRES. AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET. REPORTERS BANNED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 24, 9.35 a.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. President Roosevelt has intensified the secrecy surrounding the navy manoeuvres. Reporters and photographers have been banned. This coincides with the decision to extend the manoeuvres to the far south-west Pacific for the. first time in the vicinity of the Japanese mandates.
A message published yesterday stated that the navy had announced that the mid-March manoeuvres would cover 11,000,000 to 12,000,000 square miles in the Pacific from Hawaii to Midway Islands and from Alaska and the Aleutians to Samoa; 150 warships, 500 aeroplanes, 3600 officers, and 55,000 ratings would be involved. It was indicated that they would be the most southerly manoeuvres ever made by the American Navy, and would traverse the areas of several Japanese mandated islands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9
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