| Show NEW NAVAL AND COALING STA uncle sam secures guantanamo and bahia honda on cuban coast president roosevelt has signed the agreement drawn up under the terms of the platt a amendment providing for the acquisition by the united states of a naval station at guantanamo and a coaling station at bahia honda bo be h in cuba the document bad had been pre signed by president palma and was brought to washington by minis mins ter it does not specify the price of the properties to be acquired by the united states and this detail is left to be settled by the usual legal condemnatory proceedings after the navy del department artmont has decided exactly the amount anand it wishes at each place with these two places properly for ford tidied as naval bases the gulf of alex ico ice would not be possible of occupy tion by a hostile fleet and the bean sea would be unsafe for an enemy at guantanamo there will be erected extensive coal flocks docks and per haps a short line railroad to connect the port with the backbone railroad already finished by private enter enterprise bahia honda will tor for some time prou ably be used simply as a place tor for the storage of coal |
