Show SAFETY LIES IN FLEET rear admiral evans wants ships for the pacific coast portland ore at the first ban of the newly organized portland press club on sunday rear admiral robley D evans U S N retired made the following plea for a fleet for the pacific coast 1 I like this beautiful country ol oi yours I 1 like your farms and your you cities and all that but whenever I 1 dooh looh out over the pacific ocean I 1 see what you want and I 1 want you men you newspaper men to see it from right standpoint you need sixteen battleships stationed on this coast with all the cruisers torpedo boats ammunition boats and colliers that are necessary to go with them that is the only way that you people of the pacific coast can go to bed and rest ceasr easy rest carefree care free of 0 the great peril 1 I N wont on t say yellow peril but green peril or any other peril so asi a to be impartial |