MYSTERIOUS VESSELS
« SIGHTED IN PHILIPPINE WATERS. AMERICAN INVESTIGATION MOOTED. NEW YORK, April 13. The Manila correspondent of the United Press has reported that part of the United States Asiatic fleet at present on manoeuvres in the China Sea may be ordered to Davao to investigate the presence of 22 mysterious vessels resembling Japanese destroyers. The customs collector at Davao said the flotilla, which was either of destroyers or submarines, did not display colours and repeatedly ignored wireless requests for identification. Davao stands on the gulf of the same name in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1938, Page 7
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