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Show ITECTIOiiOF ; p;.gifig COAST LK'S POLICY More Than 67 Per Cent of All Appropriations for ; 20-Year Period Assigned . : to 'West Under Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. SI if By A. ' 1. Recognition of the strattj!c ' "importance of th Paelflo waa seen , Z today in. the approval of the navy drpart merit of recooHnandatlo no of ' 1 naval hoard far development of 'American shore stations. I More than 7 per cent of alt appropriation for bases and naval -deposit and air stations durlrtf the next twentv years will o to the 'erection of first and second Unra of 2 support for tbo nary in the Pa- ! 4-1 fie undrr the provisions of the "report vhlch, throuah the slrna- j ture of Acttns; flecretary Boose-,vU, Boose-,vU, became the baato policy of tsh department. -1 The boerd of osperta which pre- -"-"pared ttre plan wee Headed ey Oap ta1n W. L. WUlard, and was 01-" 01-" dred to lay down a definite pro-frtm pro-frtm which, would carry out the precept enunciated by tha odmnn 'hoard in 121. Am one; the 1m- portent proJcta to which th board and the department have given formal approval were: " Naval base. Honolulu, $42 121,- (: naval base. Ban FYanclec. , fl.(2l,000: naval base, Puret Pound, 92S,60,O00; naval base, ranal Zone, ll.Sl5.0oft; naval base 6an Diero, tl7.101.vow. . These p reject e. covertn the Western coast approaches eonretn- plate Hie exptnditure of about 'IUI.000,000 of the IUMM.0OO " g reset e of ths entire proa rem. R- - strained by the five power naval ' treaty from further development I In th Philippines, Guam and . Bamoa, th board allotted only a - small sura to these points for neceeaary repair work and recom- mended the concentration of defensive de-fensive preparations In the Pacific to Hawaii, with the lmme1Ute ' focus of development at Peart Harbor. Har-bor. The experts agreed that completion com-pletion of the pros mm for Pearl 14 arbor was the moat preaalnr now In view .and set aside $2,000,000 for . thin one development. The pros-ram for naval atr station sta-tion . outlined In a supplemental w report, called for expenditure of . an additional $1MbH.m0 to be pro- - vidd in twenty equal annual In- etaiimentii. This report also ha been definitely approved by th department. It gave prominent . place to air depots In th Hawaiian group, recommend In th depart-. depart-. merit ak for 'i6.0u0 In the next , snproprlation bill as the first ln-, ln-, siaiiment. The Hawaii main pi m- - would he given $2.01.000 In 'he next budxet and annual allot-" allot-" ments of about $2,000,000 for each year between 1 2S and 19 at, when . the work would be completed. |