| Show A PLAN OF DEFENSE How to Protect tna Atlantic and Colt Coasts in Tmes ot War trIOt 1 AAVAL OllICEIS Auxiliary trusts Ualslili In Case or tu HutM ncjrOiiiis lor llisi Mil in WASHINGTON Doe 23A report has Just been submitted to Secretary Herbert by a board of naval olUceiB outlining a plan ol defense ot r Ibo Atlantic and Unit coasts In Casual wr File hd met secretly and consisted ol Admirals Ittniaiy and fill cc Captains Sampson and Taylor and Lieutenant Wnlnwrlghl In BB much an this beard was organized by carder dated August 19 hat und convened by virtue ul that order the meeting line no relations to the present state ol foreign relations The plant of 1 defense de-fense considered were originally ire pared at Ibo naval war ollece nl Newport 111 The order for tile examination and revision of pious was Issued lu view of possible trouble with u foreign power Ihe cloy of 1 tile navy denies that glib board was artembled Ub account ac-count of f posalblo indication It A with tipalu and declared that plans for coast doenseB would have been pro pared at 1 Ibis lime whether our foreign relations were serene or etraluej rile lact that the board met end submitted I sub-mitted Us report while the Senate lotelign relations committee was doctorIng doctor-ing for the Jndopetdence ef Cuba lende additional Inturest 10 thoPlatiff adopted The p aus are said lo have boeu III preparation lit the war college for three Years aDd have nw been revised it slams particulars outs approved by the highest authorities In the navy They provide I for Ibo deronie of tile Atlantic coast from Delaware lo Care Cu tom Cape Cod to tile I Pen ibioot Utlawaiu and Clieal site bif Irom Cape Hat terns to East Port Maine and lor the southern pan ol the Atlantic coast and for the entire Jjlt cur 11 Is also 1 Bald that the bjard coneld crinl and reporloJ to the coy ol the navy on ILe distribution ol the North Atlantic iquadrou lu came ol war The strength of Ibo ravy Including the ships In coaiuiUilou and those Iota up I dlacatsel 10 tne report One of Ibo Important features of the bDuidd elaborations was the question of auxiliary crulaersfor use In case of an emergency There late nluitel vessels log between polls on the North Atlautlu coast which have hem ubaldfziid by the government and are available for means of defense In easel eas-el war Tbue ships range from tile St Lou If will 11C29 lima utanlico mot to tile Pnlludelphla lth I 11 020 tul tins The proposed catteries of 100 merchant ships Include all guns up to Blx lucbre In calibre Jull lew of Ihcao guns have bran completed The number I being increased ah year and Ibo guns are stored at a port wblch would be convenient for tile vtxela 1 Icr which they are Intended The conclusions or this hoard are unJoubtedly of great Imporlacoi but will not probably be revealed by Secretary Herbert unless II should be ueceeeary lo fut Ibo recommendations Into operation IUOSlECIS Oi HOSTILITIES NEW YUHIC Doc 23 Lieutenant Commander 1 1 Buckingham U 1 N0 came Horn Wabluglou and attended 1 at-tended a meeting of Ihe second provisional pro-visional naval militia battalion which was held lu Brooklyn last night He represented the leotetary of tile navy In telling of the great rervlce the naval mllula might lend l to Ibo regular regu-lar navy In case of war be said tile fctealeal dinner lu New York was nut that the ships ol O enemys fleet could paaa Ihe lot at the entrance lo lh As harbor but that they would lie H out of range of our guns and block add our port putting a slop to com morc morc1h navy department said he has been planning to have a flotilla ol thirty or forty torpedo boats lu this bar bor and others at dlflerent ports along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts Them could be clllcemd mud manned In great part by cur navy rullllla The navy department la I counting on the naval inllllla to t help In case of 1 a sudden sud-den emergency rotrct our seaboard cities In case ot Iu attack 1 might moblllie all the naval mllltta organl zltlona ol the country al one point Lieut Commander Buckinghams words left tie doubt In the minds ol 1 the militiamen that I was the prospect pros-pect ef 1 hostilities bleb led him to speak as he did I = i WORIC I Al A NAV1 YARD VALLVJO CM Dtc 2J Though work slackened somewhat a 1 the navy yard owing to the discharge of apart a-part of the force because of a lack ol mod there la still a fair amount ot work In progress some 800 men being employed Work still continues on lifts Baltimore Concord Mohican Hanger and Peusscota for which ship < money was especially sol aside by the last 1 Congress rue duller Chsrlealon however dU not cjinu under Ilila head and will probably have to wall until appropriations from the present Congress are available befure her repairs re-pairs begin Ibo Petrel which was placed In commlislou Dec 16b I al like duck filling with it < rea lot a three yearb crude on the China station jibe will probably be here for two Misiths more ilurin < which lime she will he luirieoteJ by lull board of In tectiou |
