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 the possibility of g surprise attack on Pearl Harbor."
 Questioned as to how information so obtained was sent to the Army commanders, Miles said that was the sole responsibility of the Army chief of staff, then Gen George c. Marshall.
 Commanders Not Told
 Miles testimony yesterday and to- day revealed that the U. s. Military High Command did not relay texts or even paraphraSes of intercepted Japanese messages to such field commanders as Maj Gen. Walter C.. Short, chief of the Army's Hawaiian department, and Douglas MacAr- thur, Philippines commander.
 Miles said that prior to Pearl Harbor the Army and Navy was broadcasts but also were monitoring commercial cables to pickup Japan csc messages. The cable monitor ing, hohwever, was a function ot the Army signal corps and not ot Army intelligence. he indicated. Tapping Forbidden
 It was from the cables that this country picked up the Japanese dip lomatic messages hitherto disclosed
 AS for telephone messages in Hawaii, no branch of the service could touch them, Miles said, be- l na11ca of O CoporaccioY,a1 cto fi,tc forbidding telephone tapping.
 Concerning the possibility of ar attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles re- called that maneuvers in the Ha- waiian area in 1882 constituted a mock defense against just such al 1 attack as the Japanese used ir striking Pearl Harbor nine years later.
 Testifying about more recent mat tcrS, Miles said he had no doubt that a message from Marshall tc the Hawaiian command on Nov. 27 1941, would effect immediate ano complete alert of the fortress"
 Attack Possible
 The Marshall message, addressed to all overseas commanders, 1n- formed them that diplomatic nego- tiations with Japan appear to bt terminated. It said hostile ac- ton possible at any moment"
 The message went on to say thai the United States should not make the first overt action but that commanders should undertake reconnaissance and other measures they deemed necessary.
 Miles said reconnaissance was tht only way that the Hawaiian defend CTS could have kept the attack form taking them by surprise.
 Miles disclosed that he believed as of Dec. 5, 1941, that the United States would go to war Ii Japan attacked Hong Kong or the Philip pines. |,
 Up to id-December, l940, h' said, he had doubted that this coum try would fight Japan to defend British or Dutch Pacific possessions
 Warner by Division
 Reminded by assictant commit fee counsel Gerhard GeSSel that report of Dec. 5, estimated the pos sibility of war in the Pacl1lc did not refer to war with th' United States" Miles interJecteo;
 Except the Philippines and Honi Kong" .4oo,
 you felt that such an attacl would involve the United States II war?" asked Gessell.
 q did, sir" Miles responded
 Miles said the report mcluoet not only his views but those of m Far Eastern division. He sax members of his Far Eastern D1Vi sion always rated the possibility O a war with Japan higher than n did. He explained that 1t wa natural for them to think that wa, 1 since they were concerner prlmaIii with one theater while the mtelll cence division as a whole was con sidering the whole picture.
 Miles was questioned about 1nior nation relayed to Short ana Rea Adm, Husband E. Kimmel, the Nav commander at Pearl Harbor.