| Show TO FORTIFY GUAM to be for cattorn aten the davy deportment lias taken the initial steps in the preparation for the complete and system of fortifications and harbor improvements by which it is intended to make the island of gnam a thoroughly protected base for our naval vessels in the western the navy department has been at pains to ascertain just what harbor facilities other nations hare in this part of the world and the maps already prepared show eliat southward from guam we are flanked tor 2500 miles by a chain of islands containing thirteen floo hai bors all of them potential bases 0 hostile powers some of them anre already equipped and fortified these harbors are included in the marshall and caroline groups which stretch from the southern border of the eastward past the longitude of guam while ou the north the La drones possess several harbors some of them as close as forty miles to our possessions in guam in view of all these facts it has been determined ter mined to make guam a great naval base |
