UNKNOWN SHIPS
MAY HAVE BEEN FOREIGN FLOTILLA PHILIPPINES MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED. NAVAL CHIEF AWAITING REPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 18. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Leahy, told the correspondent of the United Press that the mystery fleet, reported to be in the Gulf of Davao, was either a chimera or a flotilla of foreign warships. Another Naval Department official said an intelligence report from Manilla proved that there had been 12 or 13 war vessels off the island of Mindanao last week.
The report, which gave no positive identification of their nationality, pointed out that Japanese warships were in the general neighbourhood at that date.
Admiral Leahy is awaiting a report from Rear-Admiral Yarnell.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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