Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-26
Hawaii MAY See
ATLANTIC FLEET
YEARFROM now
Condition OF Panama Canal
Had Nothing to Do. With
Giving Up Cruise -
FOREIGN SITUATION Is Il.
REASON FOR NEW PLANS
Ships viii Assemble at Nara
gansett Bay on,Friday and
Stay Until July IS
BY C. S. ALERT.

Especial Star-Bulletin Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June ia divi-
sion of the Atlantic feet, comprising
five first class battleships, will not
visit Honolulu the middle of August,
as has been contemp plated by Score
tary Daniels for many months. The
exigencies of the foreign situation. in
GLIDING possible trouble with Ger
many, is responsible for the abandon
ment of the practise cruise. The con-
dition of the Panama Canal and the
possibility of dangerous iandslides Is
declared to have not been a factor in
the final decision. :
Secretary Daniels went down with
his flags flying. He refused until the
last minute to even tacitly admit that
the trip to Hawaii must be abandoned.
The only announcement yet made by
the secretary Is contained in the pro-
gram issued for summer maneuYers
of the feet. 1t says:
''The program previously announced,
including the cruise to the Pacific,
will therefore not be carried out this
Summer"
The fmpresston preNaiss in al naval
circles that If foreign complications
are smoothed out the trip OF the en-
tire Atlantic feet to San Francisco,
with division continuing to Homo
lulu, will be carried ont next summer,
along the same lines laid down for
the present season. - T..
No definite statement to that effect
will be made now, but developments
will determine the future course. The
words of Secretary Daniels, that the
program will mot be carried out this
summer, ''tclearly. indicates a firm de-
termination to make 1t effective when
ever conditions will permit.
The summer program for the Allan.
tic fleet, taking the place of the ex-
tended cruise to San Francisco and
Hawaii through the Panama Canal,
was announced by Secretary Daniels
after conference with Admiral
Fletcher, commander-in-chief of the
feet, and Rear Admiral Benson, chief
of operations. - - !. ~.
The feet will assemble in Nara.
gensett bay June % and remain there
until July 10, when the ships will dis
perse for divisional exercises" until
July 80. Bases for the exercises have
been designated as follows: .=
First division, Newport: second di.
vision, Provincetown. Mass; third di.
vision. Rockport, Mass; fourth divi.5
sion, Boston. ... H.
Returning to Narragansett bay July
so, the vessels will remain there un-
til August Is, when they will go to
Block Island sound for fleet maneu.
vers, to continue until August 81.
Two squadrons will exercise in tao
tics of battle approach, torpedo and
mine work e. -~:.s. " H..
September l the fleet will assemble
in Hampton roads, target practise in
Tangier sound occupying the next fort
night. Leaving Hampton roads Sep
TENDER 20, the ships of every descrip-
ton will go to sea for a war game,
which will continue for ten days.
The battleships Wisconsin, Nilsson
ri and Ohio, comprising the Naval
Academy practise squadron, will leave
Annapolis for San Francisco by way
of the Panama canal, as soon as the
court of inquiry investigating irregu-
larities in examinations has concluded
its sittings. .- = - -. -