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Show SAYS PACIFIC COAST SHOULD BE FORTIFIED Naval Preparedness Is Dismasted Before Naval Society hy Captain A. P. Ntblack. NKW YORK, Nov. 1?. Pi epa redness, from the naval ponM -f view. v:is ,11s-nssoil ,11s-nssoil iod:v before tile So.-letv ol Naal Ar.'hl!eets and Marino r-u-ineers by i'ap-taln i'ap-taln A. P. Nlblark. 1'..- N-. "J' - president presi-dent ,f tho so. lety. thtntaln Nlhiaok urred tiie import alien of f ut 1 1 1 mi! the Pa-d'u: ro-ist ii tul In pai i i- 'ila r i ho m-ed ftr proi trr farilitios for pro idins tlie navy w:th fuel stations. Ho n r trod I he osl n hi h h in"ii t of ado-quale ado-quale M.ppli-S of ooat a nd oil at Honolulu. Hono-lulu. MMw'nv an, I Guam, wbh li. h" main-in: main-in: in-1, would msure i lie i.ro; r mohili" v of Iho' foot. .. a'S il!s- ')-'d tho ahiO of fortified naval baos id the almhIbu !B:.tiids. the extreme i,om':, r-ief)o tiM; Tmuila Island In the h-mth Paiflo and Hawaii. 1 . Y. Spear, w ho hj-i rnado, numerous fmprovement-; In subninrinos, rxpre- sed ii,e opinion that the r.ubmsnno li-'Ct of the future would bo divided into coast ,,f I and ofloriive. era ft. with djs-Plaeomentu djs-Plaeomentu up to T.v'i tons- nnd speeds of from eleven to seventeen knots. |