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Show "Nautical Kovelfe" Navy Ships Set for Flee. Problem Next week will bee the launching cf United States Fleet Problem XIX. Sometime before dawn on the morning of Tuesday, March 15, 170 sleek grey warships with over COO planes aboard will stea.ax cut from their anchrage under sealed orders bound for some secret destination des-tination m the great triangular area extending from Southern California Califor-nia to Hawaii and thence to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. For a period of six weeks, all men and ships will be working and operating under simulated wartime conditions. condi-tions. Radio will be silenced and all communication with shore suspended, sus-pended, together with long .- periods of darkened ship, high speed runs, and many hours will be spent each day manning the battle stations. But to give the men a well-earned respite from these strenuous exercises, exer-cises, the Fleet will anchor in Hawaii Ha-waii for a period of ten days. This time will be devoted to shore leave lor the men; they will be enter-ained enter-ained on shore by dances, dinners, special fetes of all kinds, and best cf all, special sightseeing tours cf the Island and all its interesting and unrialed scenic spots. Among these men will be approximately six to seven hundred boys who enlisted en-listed at the Salt Lake City Recruiting Re-cruiting Station frc.ni the Inter-'.Ticuntain Inter-'.Ticuntain area during the past three years. To some of them it will be their first participation in a Fleet Problem:, and many of them will get their first glimpse of the Paradise cf the Pacific. To a very few, who enlisted within the past three or fcur months, it will be their first sea voyage. But, though the many drills and exercises are s'metimes strenuous during any Fleet Problem, the men enter into te war games with great enthus-iar,i: enthus-iar,i: lasm, and the recreational Visits m ne and strange lands mnr? than compensate them for the weens spent at sei under wartime war-time condition |