Exercises in North Sea to Be Held in August; Navy Week Cancelled; Ominous Signs in Europ "London, June 26. Sovy Week, normally held in the first week of August, will have to be abandoned this year," the Admiralty anna! in an official communique today.
It stated, "It has been per to advance the normal summer leave period of ships of the Home Fleet to July to enable dockings and refits to be completed during that month preparatory to carrying out exercises in August.
This decision will necessarily involve the cancellation of visits to certain seaside resorts during July and Navy Week will.have to be abandoned."
Commenting on this communique, Parliamentary quarters declared advancement of the date'of naval manœuvres was caused by reports from Germany according to which international tension will reach its height during the second half of August.
Last year, British naval exercises took place in September, during the period of Czecho-German tension, Naval quarters naturally denied that there was any link between the international situation and British naval manœuvres, But diplomatic quarters nevertheless were convinced that Britain wished to spare no measures to face any eventuality.
They pointed significantly to recent speeches made by German statesmen, to the German press campaign against Britain and to frequent German allusions to a settlement of the Danzig problem.
The same circles declared, "It is by preparing for the worst that hopes for peace can best be founded."
They emphasized that since the Munich crisis of last September, the British Fleet's tonnage and armaments and munitions stores had been greatly
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