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Show FLEET MOVES -1. WAR GAMES LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (-Wlth . all tha secrecy as if in tlma of war tha United States fleet Hood out to sea silently In tha darkness before daws today for tha big naval war games of the year. Dreadnoughts, aircraft carrier!, heavy cruise re, destroyers and submarines sub-marines moved out from tha naval bases of San Pedro and Baa Diego, (eared for fighting. For 10 daya or aa tha hundred fighting ships art to engag In tactical tac-tical exercise an route to tha Panama Pan-ama canal. A half dosen warcraft will be stationed between here and tha canal nest Week, while ths M giant sky patrols of patrol wing will fly from Ban Diego to the Weet Indies by way of Panama. Tha maneuvers will contlnua until un-til next June, when the armada returns to southern California. There will be o dot at Ions in tha Pacific, Pa-cific, the Atlantio and tha Caribbean. Carib-bean. Most spectacular of ths war asarclsaa will be the big battle game In tha Caribbean, known aa problem XX, to be staged from mid-February to tha first week In . March. In tha greatest concentration of tha exercise there will be 10 fighting fight-ing shlpa, too airplansa and 5, 000 officers and man. But other units f tha United States . fleet, wnlch boasts of 11 ships and 2T aircraft, air-craft, will, hold independent drills ca tha Pacifio coast and In the Hawaiian area. |