This Pacife headquarters of United States Navy was on a wartime basis to-night us sudden ship movements along the California coast were carried out behind a cur-
{nin of official secrecy.
San Diego. isthe eleventh Naval District Headquarters, most. Import~ of all American bases since the advent of the policy some years ago which assigned the great bulk of the fleet to Pacific waters, It Ig also a destroyer base, a naval alr base, a naval training station, and 2 "Marine" headquarters and training Station. Intercourse. between ships and shore ordinarily Is virtually without restraint.
'OMlclat scereey was enforced to-day on all fleet movements, and naval commanders refused to make any to press or public. Naval armed with " machine-guns patrolled the harbour to prevent any foreign' Ashing craft from the banks off the coast approaching near the anchorage of the naval vessels.
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