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...Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, stalwart Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, 56, will probably be on the bridge of his flagship Mutsu when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...Pacific. What Japan did in the Carolines, either with dredges or battleships, did not concern the U. S. And last week word leaked out of the Navy Department that, as a friendly gesture to Japan, the Scouting Force will probably be returned to the Atlantic at the conclusion of Fleet Problem...
...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...
...Minister Afranio de Mello Franco labored day & night in Rio de Janeiro to keep war from breaking out at Leticia. Striding out of Minister de Mello Franco's office after a half-hour conference, Colombian Minister Dr. Carlos Uribe Echeverri was asked how much longer Colombia's fleet would wait before striking to recover Leticia...
...terrifically hot up there on the Amazon River!" cried Dr. Uribe Echeverri. "There is always the danger of fever. Our fleet cannot stay anchored indefinitely...