Coordinated manœuvres between Army and Navy are planned for some future date to practice tactics against air and parachute attacks at widely distributed points in the New World.
Plans have also been perfected for the reinforcement and protection of the vital outposts of national defence.... Hawaii, Puerto Rice and the Canal Zone. The defences of each of these points are rapidly being perfected to make them impregnable against surprise assault.
The question of the defence of the Philippine islands is still, as it has been for the past decade, a moot and undetermined phase of the national defence problem. The increased national emphasis on defence has not served to settle or clarify the degree of responsibility which the Army and Navy undertake for the protection of the Philippine archipelago, America's great salient in the Far vessel Held Up Owing to Navicert Diffienities Bombay, Aug. 30.
The Japanese liner Fushimi Maru. bound for Europe, held up here owing to the British navicert system preventing her taking on water, has now been permitted to continue her voyage, according to the Japanese Consul here.
It is stated in Simla that the delay in the departure of the Fushimi Maru from Bombay was due to routine administrative causes, which ate Hable to occur occasionally under present conditions.
It is understood that the Japanese Consul-General is approaching the Government of India to obviate similar delays in future—Reuter.
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