Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 17 | Rough Weather Delays Fleet

ROUGH WEATHER OELff FLEET Men Will Be Prevented Spending Christmas Eve Ashore. WASHINGTON, Dec. -S. Postponement Postpone-ment fmm December 24 to December 2t of tho review of the Atlantic fleet by SocrekM'y Daniels at New York was announced an-nounced tonight at tho navy department, following receipt of a message from Admiral Ad-miral Mayo, commander of the units of tho fleet imw returning from Kuropan waters. Admiral Mayo informed the de- ' na rtmcnt t hat had wen i her is delaying the returning vessels und It would be impossible im-possible to rendi New York until tho day after Christmas. The message from Admiral Mayo was revived by Secretary Daniels aboard the: presidential yatch Mayflower a i Annapolis An-napolis and was transmitted to tho navy depa rtmeitt, which issued the following statement: "The. secretary of the navy has received re-ceived a message from Admiral Mayo saying' tiii't weather in the Atlantic is delaying t i ic progress home of the Atlantic At-lantic fleet. For t hat reason it will be necessary In" postpone the naval review at New York from December L'4 to December De-cember "fi." The events of the welcome lo be accorded ac-corded I he officers and crews of the re-turning re-turning vessels, including a review of the fleet by Secretary Daniels and a parade of the men on Fifth avenue and Broadway, Broad-way, will be carried out on the 2tith as planned for the -nth. It. was said. The delay in the fleet's arrival at New York will prevent the men spending Christmas cvo ashore, as had been planned. However, it was said that generous gen-erous shore leaves will ho granted lo the men, as it Is expected that the fleet will remain at New York until January S or 10.