The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-06-19
U. S. FLEET TO
VISIT AUSTRALIA
ships To Be Concentrated in
Pacific for Most Extensive War
Games in NaW's History.
WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS
Atlantic Naval Forces Will Leave in
January for the Joint Operations
of Hawaii-AdmiraI Coontz
to Command Operations.

to Command Operations.
Washington Practically all Amer
ica's naval fighting forces will be
concentrated in the Pacific several
months next spring for the most ex-
tensive manoeuvres in their history,
under plans just approved by the
Navy Department. Printed schedules
for the ships movements were issued.
These plans, under consideration
more than a year, provide for joint
manoeuvres in Hawaiian waters of
almost all the United States fleet.
The manoeuvres will last thirty days.
A cruise of the battle fleet, accom-
panied by the new light cruisers in
commission with the feet, to Austria
liza and New Zealand-p provided funds
for the necessary fuel are available
at that time-also is included in the
program.
On this cruise the feet will visit
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, and
Wellington and Auckland, New Zea-
land, returning to the West Coast
after an absence altogether of about
five months.
Originally the department had I'M
der consideration holding this years
winter and spring manoeuvres in the
Pacific. but it was decided to con-
centrate the feet in West Indian
waters instead and to postpone the
war games in the Pacific until 1925.
For months details for next years
feet schedules have been worked out
and the final draft, subject to minor
changes, have been approved by de-
partment heads.
Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Com
mander in Chief of the United States
fleet, will be in command of the oper-
ations, accompanying the battle fleet
on the Australian cruise aboard his
flagship, the Seattle.
The schedules call for the departure
early in January of the entire naval
forces in the Atlantic to Guantan-
amo, with the exception of some Of
the older battleships, which will be
kept for the midshipmen's annual
cruise. They will remain at Guam
tanamo until February %, and then
sail for the Pacific, via the Penama
Canal. A two weeks problem will be
worked out between these forces and
those on the Pacific Coast, en- route
to San Pedro, Cal, consisting Of the
usual search, attack and operation
practices.
For three weeks the combined
forces will remain at San Pedro and
from there viii go to San Francisco
for a ten-day stay. April Is the en-
tire feet will steam from the Golden
Gate for Hawaii.
Twelve days have been allowed for
the trip to Honolulu, and a series of
scouting, screening and formation
manoeuvres will be carried out by the
combined forces en- route. The feet
will remain in Hawaiian waters
little more than a month, engaging in
exercises similar to those carried on
this year off Culebra Island, in the
Caribbean Sea, and on June 7 most
VI Tic S1LAdALAC III &c WILL ACe40
ward
Three weeks later, July l, the bat
tie fleet-twelye of the navy's great
est fighting craft, accompanied by the
feet base force, certain necessary
units of the train and several scout
cruisers-will leave Honolulu for
Australia. On the way war games will
be worked out, and two months later
the feet viii return to its home bases
on the Pacific Coast.
Japanese Traders Foment Boycott
Tokio-More sordid motives than
those Of patriotism are backing the
anti-American agitation which has
followed enactment in the United
States of the immigration law barring
japanese, according to the views of
government officials and business
men her.
The same sources expressed ths
belief that the anti-American agita-
tion had passed it's peak.