Show HOBSON HORSON I SEES WAR AHEAD AND SOUNDS WARNING TO PREPARE DALLAS ALLAS Tex July 13 13 Representative tive live former navy captain Hobson of Alabama believes there ther will be war soon Joon between the United St States tes and Japan In an interview yesterday Mr Hobson said War between Japan and the United Stat States s' s is inevitable Japan is only waiting waiting- for a a. pretext on which to make a a declaration of war That declaration may come at any moment Our Our navy is 18 inadequate to me meet inept t tsuch such an emergency More battleships should be built at once once Even now it may ba too late to avert a disastrous sea collision with the Japanese navy because of the disparity Of fighting strength th in the Far East but that should not deter our Government from maintaining a firm attitude and from proceeding proceeding- at once to add two more strong fleets to our naval establishment in the quickest time J possible I I fear that the action of othe the United States Stales Government in ordering the Atlantic Atlantie At At- lantic lantie fleet to the Pacific waters will be betak betaken betaken tak taken n advantage of by Japan as a pretext pretext pretext pre pre- text for precipitating a war with this country This This is Government should proceed at atthe atthe atthe the the- opening of the next session of Congress Congress Con Con- gress w-ess to provide for building the strongest navy o of ot any nation on the earth S |