Meanwhile, 89 United States warships completed transit through the Panama Canal from the Pacific. The movement of the ships through the Canal was claimed under strict military censorship and the Canal was closely guarded by United States Army patrols and squadrons of scouting planes.
The large Pacific fleet will join the new Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo where more than 100 Navy planes, including long-range "Flying Destr ers" already have been concentrated. Theoretically, the manceuvres began when the Pacific fleet ships secretly slipped out of their west coast bases last week, but Navy officers indicated that solution of "Fleet Problem XX" would begin this week. The major point in the problem, it wes understood, is the defence of the Panama Canal.
More than 200 warships, 200 planes and 150,000 Navy and Marine Corps men will participate in the manceuvres which have been interpreted here as a warning against European political or military aggression in the Western Hemisphere.—United Press.
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