MYSTERY FLEET
! PHILIPPINES INCIDENT | AMERICAN NAVAL COMMENT i WARSHIPS NOT POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED ‘(By I'eleftraph—Prese Association—Copyright Received April 19, 10.30 p.m. ! WASHINGTON, April 18. Admiral Leahy told the correspondent of the United Press that the mystery fleet at the Philippines was either a chimera or a flotilla of foreign warships. j Another naval department official i said that an intelligence report from i Manila proved that there had been | 12 or 13 war vessels off the island of Mindanao last week. The report, which gave no positive identification of their nationality, pointed out that Japanese warships were in a general neighbourhood on that date. Admiral Leahy is awaiting a report from Rear-Admiral Yarnell.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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