HOMEWARD MOVE
BY AMERICANS IN FAR EAST THREE LINERS BEING SENT. EXTENSION OF FLEET MANOEUVRES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 15. The issue of passports for Americans for the Far East lias been discontinued by Washington, and three liners, the Monterey, Mariposa and Washington are being sent to the Far East to transport Americans returning. It is reported that the Monterey sailed from San Francisco today for the Far East and that the Mariposa will sail later from Honolulu. | The United States fleet summer manoeuvres in the Pacific are being continued beyond the previously scheduled time. Thirty warships, including three battleships and an aircraftcarrier, are to leave Hawaii to take part in further exercises. . President Roosevelt has appointed Messrs Morgenthau and Stimson, Colonel Knox and Mr Knudsen an informal committee to standardise the design of British and American warplane orders and thereby speed up production. Mr Morgenthau said that such standardisation in the Curtis Wright factory had resulted in the production of 12 fighters a day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1940, Page 5
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167HOMEWARD MOVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1940, Page 5
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