Show 1 I JAPANESE BUILDING NEW NAVAL ST A TION Garrison of Unusual Size Bin Being Assembled at Island of Formosa KEY TO THE FAR EAST Ideal Base of Operations to tc Defend Country or Attack Attack At At- Attack At- At tack Philippines Washington Jan Jail 13 ulJan lL is la u 1 i sr at naval al ba Lu base e c at ut the Island of oC rot Tor Tori mOla i o i. i Great sun lUC are mounted magazines of or great nr ire filled to lo overflow th olOM of ol OM of con coni are un beIng tc atom ed d with u the 6 Ugh torn for Tor handling It 11 I tic 10 In corn com t i 4 es Q ai l yd n ii OT r eix t new 1 1 l 1 d t. t rr Af ml I r Pe P e b t o un jl m jut jut- i d d U Lii- Ci nC J I the thur Phil U cl It It may Y be bl U tt lh th cy y to to hit fur Cur stern c It allun iou The Time loal activity H jh h ant and of ur tI time HIP operations u upon on tin tim ilund iund o of I has hua ha cl caused grave giave ap up In circles ciu Ac o till the 8 lons or of tu lade lJ by the time Japanese I UK hit- United Stale s ar arc greatly gm-eathy puzzled by lIy th ll of or time tho Japanese Japanese- on the time Island fur fr Formosa olmo a would woul be blo an Ideal Id ul base bitse e for foi t l' l It would oula afford u u. harbor for a n bu c for lor coal coul and und supplier aun nil a n point from flum remit which to throw row Into ito time the Philippines 8 While actual ilg- ilg s re-s ate are lacking It Is known that For Is 15 being converted Into n. n that thousands thOusand of ut Soldiers ai m- m cony to lo the time island Inland by b trans orts orta that thai the tue there here or om en route care for fOl a great arm army unel nd that time the ammunition supplies pro ed would replenish battleships and an Ln n army as well for fOl or a state of oC warfare vau Time The news leak leaked d out Here only on- today It has hns been known n in untie circles circle for or more than chum ten tout days The he hue fuel fud has hag caus caused d a great greut deal o 0 The Ill especially i gig sig- owing to lo the time fact I thai mat for or tI th last ast four tour years lars acting upon orders from the he ie TokiO RO government o eminent no foreign engl engi englI admitted to Formosa meems have boon beun I ii I i addition to this It I Is admitted by tin war var ar department that no nu 1 pC f r this government is admitted lo to an nn point from frum which he could make main single Mingle observation of or Japanese u L and an esp especially are CUO they ed ted from frum ruin 1 visiting time the torpedo arsenal nr enal 01 ur lit ie shipyards where whet the Japanese se art an and amid six ab two iwo now j building vessels of or a ne new acm type opinion an nn ideal Idea idealise Formosa a Is In III expert o tho the Japanese base ruse ise of operations for fur theli either cither attacking an enemy any ammy that thal own country countr proper or In jul the tho event o time fin fluid It herself should at an any to make a descent on the time Phi Phi- 8 I Is I the one on J 0 n of f Japan i that can cami be self In tho way WU of coal it lois has large coal mince and these It is stated have been put In iii operation and at tut tho port Olt of nearest to tc the mines there arc are as us many tons of coal as the United el States Has hIam afloat for foi her imer battleship fleet that thal Is to say oy tons tomis In jut fact some of the tho experts the Japanese I supply UI at l 1 as all tons under The Time port affords a safe retreat formidable guns gun for the tho Japanese Ja fleet and amI at nl the tho tame time enables the time fleet 10 to C be Ut b much nearer time tho Philippine than at Nagasaki l' l ur or Kobe Kube Japan coula assemble under r the on eli the time located d on thue tho recently i el created artificial Islands a 3 whole fleet of transports It is manifest that If IC the English fleet French or German fleets or even time the or ur American fleet should attempt to It of the time four Cour places III in Formosa Tokio To To- any ammy an klo kio or the tho Ton Kwal it would be b necessary to tp divide l c the flee icet of oC observation Japan sa say experts could well weB send her whole fleet to Formosa For For- very be bi mosa and concentrate it It would with extreme the Japanese nc fleet feel could be JlII prevented fro convoying a n. fleet of oC uan to soniC some point on omi bay or In time tho Philippines away awa from Crom Manila or any fortified place e where there thero wets was even cven a 11 battalion of American soldiers A A very 1 very high military I authority to wh whom 1 this thIs fact ii t of I the fortification of Formosa communicated scud suld tOlla today that lint strategically trat- trat was it was time the best l cst and unel In fueL foci tho the only move U that could be bl made l Formosa impregnable n hg Ill u said Suld ll ba base e for Japan cither tho tim lJ best beat o possible has officer defense dd ns This for olen olenor or been In Japan arid and confessed that while there thure he had been unable to get any regarding the tue coast fads facts of importance defenses of the Island upon application no lie Ho Ito said that even en ot of th the Japanese could not nol visit any un ono one although such tuch permission Is KI ant gm-ant- ant anted ports In the time ed eel d to visitors occasionally States The Tho approaches lo II the LImO Japanese JalIne e forts Corts are arc guarded now just as alf thc they would beIn be bo boIn In time tune of war sear |