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Show SAFETY LIES IN FLEET. Rear Admiral Evans Wants Ships for the Pacific Coast. Portland, Ore. At the first banquet ban-quet of the newly organized Portland Press club, on Sunday, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. S. N retired, made tho following plea for a fleet for the Pacific coast. "I like this beautiful country ol yours; I llko your farnis and your cities and all that, but whenever I look out over tho Pacific ocean I see what you want, and I want you men you newspaper men to see It from the right standpoint; you need sixteen battleships stationed on this coast, with all tho cruisers, torpedo boats, ammunition boats and colliers that aro necessary to go with them. That is tho only way that you people of the Pacific coast can go to bed and rest easy, rest care-free of tho great peril I won't say yellow peril, but green peril or any other peril, so as to bo Impartial." |
