U.S.A. NAVY
CONCENTRATING IN THE PACIFIC. PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY. A-ust”" lian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received Mardh 16, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 15. Navy,officials explain that the drafting of plane for uniting the whole of the American fleet in the Pacific is part of a programme to take a complete inventory of the American Navy. The Navy Department does not anticipate any present danger which would require throwing the entire fleet into the Pacific, but it is anxious to determine whether the west coast facilities are adequate to accommodate all American ships should an emergency require it.
A previous message stated: —The New York “Tribune’s” correspondent at Washington learns from a high authority that orders for concentrating practically the entire fleet in the Pacino will be sent out within a few weeks. This is being done, not as a military gesture, but merely as a return to sound naval strategy. It :s pointed out that every important naval authority has declared that the division of the nation’s fleet is the height of folly, and the present division has been giving grave concern ever since Mr Daniels ordered it-.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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