Fyet reports come from Japan that our protests to some of her policies are being taken as a veiled Threat of war, It is reported, that the people in Japan are being made to believe that the United "States feet was mobilised in the Pacific a threat against their empire and for as an economy move as we all know here. would like to have you Japanese here in Hawaii come Tnunieate with your countrymen in and. allay" these "suspicions The Admiral explained that the United States fleet found that it was far more economical to operate as unit in the Pacific than to keep half of the vessels in the Atlantic.
Manoeuvres are conducted in both the Atlantic and Pacific but that most of them had been conducted on the Pacific this year. The scout ing fleet usually bases on the At-antic and it participated in the summer and autumn manoeuvres, he plained, It was found that the Feturn of that fleet to the Atlantic would be costly, Navy children now registered in the California schools would have to be transferred in the middle of a term,—Furthermore, supplies, especially oil, could be jurehased more cheaply' in California and delivered more cheaply. through the pipe lines than Atlantic ports.
While fo reference was made to yesterday's arrest of two soldiers on Gharges of removing secret defence documents from the army files here, some of Admiral Stirling's listeners protested to see a relationship be-Eween his speech to-day and rope that the accused soldiers had hoped to sell the documents to Japan.
Others thought the speech was Intended in part to allay suspicions that might have been aroused by the fact that the documents in ques tion related to the secret defences the Hawaiian Islands.—United Press.
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