Seereis Which Might Explain Famous Sale of Elk's Hills Oil Lease Washingtor, Dee. 5.
There has been great curiosity to} Jearst something definite about the naval situation i i years ago since Admiral Robison Feeently refused to give evidence with regard to "state secrets" which, according to the defence, Gustified Mr. Doheny, the multi: millionaire oil magnate, and ex-Senator Fail, then Secretary of the Interior, in rushing through a lease of the naval oil reserve lands at Elk's Hills, California, to Mr. Doheny's company for exploitation.
Mr, Wilbur, Secretary of the' Navy, warned Admiral Robison against revealing "confidential matter" but the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ruled in the trial that the Court had authority to declare what should be _submitted to the jury. Admiral Robi-the naval ident Harding'
regime were convinced that, Pearl Harbour was strategically a9 important as the Hawaiian has in their plans for national defence, Reuter,
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