These are the first large scale man-Jceuvres held by the Japanese Navy in the northern Pacific for the last four years. The 1933 war games were held around the Japanese Mandated Islands, while those of 1034 were held in the China Seas.
Special attention is being paid this year to the efficiency of the newly-enlarged ait' branch of the Ominata Naval Base, which is under the command of Rear-Admiral Shire Nishio.
The defensive value of the Kurile Islands as alr and naval bases are also being studied.
Japanese naval officers have strenuously denied that the war games in the North Pacific had anything to do with those held by the United States navy carly this summer in a triangle comprising Puget Sound, the Aleutians and Midway Islands, plans were laid two years a spokesman declared, "We have found out how the tropics affected the eMciency of our fleet. Now we want to find out what the north has in store for us"—Rengo.
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