Show COAST IS AT T MERCY j OF A FOREIGN I r FOE F Ou E JAPANESE CAN CANi i LAY IT HA vue 1 Most Alarming Report on This Subject Delivered to National Nation Nation- al Congress by the General Staff of the Army HOSTILE POWER COULD r f EASILY LAND GREAT ARMY If 0 f Six Hundred Thousand Soldiers Sol Sol- di diers rs Could Be Disembarked J in Rich Country of the West Without t Serious Opposition I HARBOR OF SAN PEDRO 04 0 4 t M 4 M 1 M 4 4 M 4 H t 4 M MO 4 4 t Washington rn Inn ai 2 1 1 The f 4 coa const coast t Is nt at tho mercy f 9 94 4 of at n foreign foi foe re according to n II nf f 4 report made 10 io Congress b by tile the f 4 tinny general Muff tolu today No omoro o o of f 4 moro more convincing On endorsement of oi off f ff f tho h appeal tI for 01 or Ui the return or of tilt tho 4 battIt mUt fleet Heet Ht tn J viter 44 4 4 Jn III this hour n II ri ls In lit our OUI n flairs f have been 4 4 In Inc Jl is not not- named lu Jit tills this 4 1 I T f Of C the tho aff f ff f- f Juts hns ms 10 io do JO with nIti Iho lio de- de def c- c f ff The f 4 fm f CUt w of or Son San r harbor I JOn Jn l J m n of ot the f 4 4 nil jill tIe the more flOI t sin sin- f fm m- m 4 Jt ii vi j u V th C- C ex- ex 41 Jt 4 d OP oz t m mt x t t J ar II A t. t J i t Mt JA Lt t J f lt tJ L r IJ 4 J p. p V 1 t 1 t d t S P rt MH m J l fd 0 l f t to i ft P. c certain Oriental OrIenta power ower rId uhl within bin a a. month o ot at th the Unto its ta hostile intentions began n gt event 1 xo h ho lell a u. I formal declaration Cc of ot wat var v no doubt doutt de deal det l lat later r land on our rn- rn k i. i good coast an tx expedition of ot an estl- estl iD ted d nUL maximum houw of ot about then ben ren and that uch a force torce could be lie d by the ond end of ot two months more mare to a ot of possibly barbot harbor bar har The cs- cs taus e with which San Pedro bor bot unfortified and through It tt t the tho e entire LOS 1405 Angeles country could be seized 1 Is Ss apparent Danger cr for the thc Coast These are arc tho the words words not not of jingOes jin- jin I but d or sensationalists goes o of or the thc army It Jt k J to keep watch and ward over tho the I l defenses This statement is the expression elon ot their of-their their profound proto conviction conJ con con- con con- J leUn of ot the danger langer to which the Country has been Jean left open by the withdrawal of ot the battle battlo fleet from front Pacific waters Their Their- report lays lars particular stress upon the fact tact that the absence of ot the fleet with the San Pe Pedro ro defenses utterly worthless in lit their present condition condition con con- entire Pacific would put the c toast coast ast and the thc Panama canal at th the mere mercy of oC Japan to for l' l that Is tho the cerI I I. I power referred to Oriental Continuing the report dwells In a the tho richness of strain upon r the country adjacent to the thc harbor Where It U Is declared Japan apan could tend land an army anny of ot men unopposed un- un 1 opposed the report could couI I That country says I population of ot four million a ore More than that the arm army general Is board oard declares that Pearl harbor within striking distance of ot San Pedro lcJ la lc harbor and could be seized It uIt apparent says Ys Ute the report that so 00 J Is Le concerned San Sait far as location J J Pedro p dro ro would be a good base baso for tor Pacific an ann against our n m to operate c cost t t Are tre submitted to bear out the Maps ipa Iap are that tt tl c claim hn of oC the general board bORrel for the thet Impossible hie would be practically of ot to o obtain possession ulon 0 United States t- t the tho Its occupation by the coast arter after IB ts hemmed In Tue country Japanese which f with mountainous flaa passages ages could be easily rendered ered ble bas has Pedro ladro harbor This report on San Sati sec sec- In d a t with 9 onil to the renewed renon remark tl th tb l Japan For It 1 18 to ha be t not n. n the talk Is II war or passion and prejudice with Is to co coif the tha of f tend but ut the lo andare and been tears fears which have encouraged h bY Ute the n. n not are aro made inde at tho WhitO tion No o of ot the House lIbuS of or the s tl this report was Ou the navy side ran an Uni undeniable un un- commented on as s deniable fact and anti It was wag t i. i i by the assertion that thai fW Japan could One J 30 days within reach San Pedro f of ot the rear al admirals Js said that Japan n American commerce com com- driven had practically tv fierce merce and shipping out of the I acme r f r mobilize In ven vers and that she sho could l to toSO transports order a fleet tlC of bt lines commercial J SO nothing of ot the soy say Immediately zelz I which she would woul-I r. r for tOr Or purposes of war j A |