U. S. WARSHIPS TO MANEUVER NEAR ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. (U.E) — Secretary of Navy CJaude A. Swanson formally announced today that fleet maneuvers next summer will
take place over the northern Pacific area in a triangle roughly marked by Alaska, Puget sound and Hawaii.
The primary locale of the maneuvers will be Alaska, it was understood, where a defending fleet will meet an invading fleet from some other port of the triangular
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Swanson said the choice of location was "in line with the navy's policy of holding- fleet problems and fleet concentrations in the
various areas contiguous to American territorial waters." Simultaneously Swanson announced that submarine division 12, composed of six submarines and tender ships have completed 8200-mile cruise around the border of this area, stopping for two months in the vicinity ' of
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for operations.
The unit is due at San Diego today from Pearl Harbor, he said. Swanson announced that the combined United States fleet under command of Admiral Joseph M. Reeves left Hampton Roads last Saturday for technical exercises and maneuvers. He said different units of the fleet will put
into gulf ports next Monday for a week's visit. Concentration in the Guantanamo-Gonaives area for gunnery exercises and tactical maneuvers will take place before the warships return to the west coast. He expected the fleet to arrive in the San Pedro-San Diego area before Dec. 1.