Show COAST C DEFENSES SES AND PATROL Referring to possible attacks on our ur coasts coast by f foreign ho hostile fleets or the landing of a a. hostile a af on jiro iii coasts o THE TELEGRAM A l mouths months a ago go pointed out that while San Franeisco Francisco f for r in in- stance s tance is 3 impregnable against again t attacks by a ci hostile f leet it if would not be diffie difficult lt for lor an alert enemy I t to o land landat at Half Moon bay twelve miles south ofSan of San S an Francisco and march on the thc city from the r ear V The Thc other day General James Allen chief hier s sig sig- sig V gnal g- g n nal at ori cl in n the United States States army army in an inter inter- v ll iii New York pointed out this fact and fur fur- expressed the belief that the hydroplane c could be made a most valuable coast coast patrol to d whore where fleet in a n case of war was aiming for f or or and thus anticipate where the Ule landing would b be e e. e and give those OI on sh shore r a chance to coneen- coneen t rate forces to meet such suck landing That s seems ems altogether sensible to us us especially V o on 1 Ol our cliv west coast b bC because aus th points at which tran poI S could land t troops oops on our west coast coat arc are so so s o numerous t tI that in th the f war wa c st rt vi vii vii- i. i h anc would be bc needed to anticipate if possible a blow blo was to be struck K V In Tu tins this connection do not riot believe we that our our great at ci cities ics should be he only defended against at at- t acks s by br sea because with modern means of of frans trans l l in the thu absence of a great r-great arm army it would L J he e a comparatively c easy sy thing for an n enemy to tc l Janel and below or 01 above a city and l lay y it in waste Q le leore f forc ore any an land Jand force could interpose |