Weshington, June 18.
cancelling long planned visits of the United Sister' Fleet to. Pacific Coast ports, Admiral James 0. Riche psoas CommanderinChet of the ident Roosevelt's earller decision "to lect, apparently was, pursuing:
keep the warships based at Honolult Indehnitery, the Navy Department sad today.
Tnformed quarters, however, inter-
ove to remind japan of the presen rote the new ers am American Of the Fleet in waters close to Japan.
These quarters. believed that "Admiral Richardson's new erder was Issue for the purpose of emphasizing the watchfulness of the United States feet and. to throw the spotlight the Fleet's presence at Honolulu.
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