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Show i SHORE LEAVE I of sailors; ! IS AWAITED I Hawaiians Eagerly Awaiting ; Privilege to Greet Victorious Victor-ious "Enemy" of Island HONOLULU, April 29. The tropical isle of Oahu today rushed plans to welcmoe its conquerors. Never in the history of militarism militar-ism has a victorious foreign foe been awaited with such friendly feeling. For the "enemy" is the "blue" navy of the United States, 45,000 officers and men, while the defeated defeat-ed people are folk from home and natives to whom Uncle Sam is a ' cherished protector. With the nation's greatest war maneuvers ended, men of the fleet were anxious for shore leave, while Hawaiians generally were awaiting to bid them welcome. While there was a general relax-; relax-; ation among the enlisted men and junior officers, following the strenuous stren-uous week of the maneuvers, Ad-.niral Ad-.niral Robert E. Coontz, 'chief- umpire, um-pire, assembled reports and data proceeding a five-day cruise to start Friday. ; In private conference with co-' co-' ordinating umpires and command-. command-. ers of both the "blue" and black forces, the exact result of the war game will be determined. Daily communiques will be issued detailing detail-ing information unfolded that is not considered vitally secret. Close observers see in the present maneuvers an easy conquest of Hawaii by a foreign foe as well as a severe menace to Alaska, the Pacific coast and the Panama canal. It is pointed out that the attacking attack-ing "blues" easfly established a base at Maui Lanai where they began be-gan operations although they were ; sighted by a "black" patrol. |