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Show PEARL HARBOR A GIBRALTAR New Naval Base Being Built by U. S. Will Be Impregnable When Completed. Washington. By midsummer or early fall it is expected that the work of constructing the approaches to Pearl Harbor will be completed and then the United States will have In the Pacific a national defense as important im-portant and as impregnable as that of Great Britain at Gibraltar, says the Christian Science Monitor. When completed the work' will have cost about $10,000,000. The channel leading Into the harbor har-bor has already been cut to a depth of thirty feet below low tide and will thus pass some of the cruisers of the Pacific station. But the cutting is to , 'Si N -W-s. " " - & |