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...hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly in the air. The Saratoga's and Lexington's bombers were assigned a "constructive" radius of 300 mi. beyond which they were supposed to be unable to return alive to their carrier. Besides gun power, the Blue defenders relied on their destroyers and submarines (of which the Blacks had none lest real underwater collisions occur) to spot the "enemy's" advance at any point along...
Naval strategists outside the U. S. are inclined to think that Fleet Problem No. 14 is largely academic as a simulation of what a Japanese-American war would actually bring. Few can visualize a Japanese fleet capturing and holding Hawaii as a base after steaming 3,374 mi. from Yokosuka, much less driving on from there another 2,100 mi. to reach the U. S. and the teeth of a potent Battle Force. The Pacific seems too large and bases too far apart for such action...
...force the fighting into the western Pacific for a clear decision, the U. S. suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits...
...fleet which Colombia sent 5,000 mi. around the turnip-shaped top of South America and up the River Amazon (TIME, Feb. 6) lay anchored all last week off Tabatinga, a Brazilian port only five miles from Leticia, the port which Peruvian irregulars seized from Colombia last September and which Colombia intends to repossess...
...Martin John Insull, gaunt, long-nosed brother of Athenian Samuel Insull, was persuaded to leave his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...