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Show PACIFIC COAST " I IS PROTECTED Uncle Sam Ready for the Japanese SPfl if They Come te Our Westers IflBM Gateway Hunting Trouble. Bia Hi 'si San Pedro HarborV the Vulnerable aYaafl Spot of the Pacific Coast, Will ba lil, Prepared to Meet Most For- Nfl mldable Hostile Invasion. Km J Washington. Tho fact wa dovel-' jfl.iM oped on Tuosday that , tho United 1 BB'M States government did not Intend to SS' fl bo caught napping in the event of bjv ' ,SV attack by a foreign powor "which the general army staff declared, might be' jr 'jflB expectod first at San. Pedro. Some1 Wta weeks ago it waa announcod thati jV I General Arthur Murray, chief of ar- Wk H tlllory, had started two mine laying) i,H fl vessels around the Horn for tho Pa- fllnj fl clflo upon tho way to California gW i fl Tho emorgency plan, of defense at, , I San Pedro Is to lay the mines at tho first .Intimation ot the hoatllo move- t'ffij J, H mcnt against the Pacific coast. Sim- J9-fl ultancously with this, a largo num.- 1( IM'jfl bor of flold guns, which have beon ly BjH soloctod and aro ready for shipment, were to bo sont to San Pedro. The ' B fl exports say that with tbo system of B V mine's already perfected for San r-1jJ''M Pedro harbor, it would bo Impossible , y j fl for a fleet to onter tho harbor, .so lfjfl matter how formidable the, aggrega- lion of war vessels. Tho largo num- M 1H ber ot flold guns would prevent the BI.M entronco ot any smaller craft for the " KuH purpose ot destroying the mines. Kl fl In( tho meantime orders were placed tor rushing a number ot pow- l crful searchlights j of tho sixty-inch H typo and it has been closely cstl- Blifl mated that thoso would havo been In- MljH stalled within a month if thoro was rjlffl any suspicious movomont ot an eh- tliMm omy's vessols. Vill Tlio vessels which are coming up tho Pacific, coast havo not only storevv ot mines nnd torpedoes on board, but MM also oxport mlno layers. Ono of tho -'MM most interesting and illuminating features ot. thoso plans Is that the !aB war department offlcors say that the !WB government would not havo had tq Wal rely on tho supplies that arc coming ul up tho coast to California. HB Minos and torpedoes ot all kinds SjB nro now In large stock upon the Pa ffB cine coast, and a good, dofonse could JjB havo been put up without the aid ot BB tho mlno laying ships. The scheme to' bo perfect, however, could not be' lHI possible without the ships, "IwfLB One of the staff officers, was asked BB how long a fleet could bo kept out of rH San Pedro. Ho said: ''At least until IJMM the battleships on this coast reached- fcB the Pacific, and these were to be ton 'tmMm lowed In. duo time by tho Atlar-Ua battleship fleet." iMsH |