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Show MUST INCREASE NAVY. United States Needs More Battleships to Control the Pacific. Chicago. Major Genornl A. W. Greely, In au address In this city, declared de-clared that if the United States is to fulfill her destiny ns tho controlling power of the Pacific ocean and maintain main-tain her position ns a world nation, sho must recognize tho gravity of tho problems which havo arisen since sho took over thu Philippines nnd prcpnro to meet them. General Greely referred particularly to tho menaco of war with Japan which hns followed tho recent re-cent nntl-Jnpaneso agitation In San Francisco, and, whllo ho expressed tho belief that thu dllllculty will bo tided over, pointed out tho lnuvltnblo reoccurrence reoc-currence of such contingencies, and pleaded for a navy which should enable en-able the American people to maintain their national honor. |