Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-24 | Page 5 | Fleet May Stay on East Coast

FLEET MAY STAY ON EAST COAST WASHINGTON Nov 24 INS INS INS- The entire American fleet which maneuvers in the Atlantic this winter winter winter win win- ter may remain indefinitely in east coast waters in view of nazi Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's aggressive policies it was admitted at the navy department today The fleet which has been based base in the Pacific for several years will wil return to the Atlantic early in January January January Jan Jan- uary for at least five months of intensive intensive intensive in in- war games Decision Not Final Tentatively the fleet is scheduled to return to its Pacific coast base the latter laller part of May after visiting visiting visiting visit visit- ing New York for the opening of the worlds world's fair but the navy department department department depart depart- ment admitted that no final decision decision decision deci deci- sion has been reached in this re re- re gard Changing conditions make it impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to issue orders at this time assigning a definite date for the fleets fleet's return to the Pacific coast a navy spokesman said Tentatively the fleet Is scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to return during May after its Atlantic maneuvers are completed but sut new conditions which may arise may change these plans Armada Readied 1 The navys navy's mighty armada armada of some vessels of war war was being readied today for the trip through the he Panama canal into Atlantic wa- wa ers From to of these warships will leave the west coast within less than ban six weeks for the passage through the canal and the comI commencement commencement com com- I of war games in the Atlantic A holding force of the remaining remaining remain- remain ing ng warships will stay on the west coast coastin in view of the continued war operations between Japan and China Silence Continues While the navy today continued to maintain official silence on the nature of its maneuvers in in carrying out fleet problem International International ional News Service learned that President Roosevelt's recent pledge that hat the United States will rearm to o the extent necessary to defend the he entire western hemisphere against aggression has considerably broadened the navys navy's defensive tac tac- tics The navy will defend the continental continental continental conti conti- areas of North Central and South America fr from m the approach of a a. theoretical fleet or coalition of fleets in an area of hundreds of thousands of square miles extending extend extend- extendIng ing ng from south of the equator to the he arctic circle it was learned It is to the southward however that hat the principal efforts of the navy will be devoted in its defense tactics The great areas of the south Atlantic Atlantic At- At lantic antic between the hump of west Africa where Germany covets new colonies to use as airplane and naval bases for a springboard to South America and the seas lying about the West Indies and lower Antilles which guard the entrance to o the Gulf of Mexico and the Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama canal will be swept by Americas America's Americas America's Amer- Amer ica's ca's greyhounds of the sea