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Show NEW NAVAL AND COALING 8TA. TION8. Uncle 8am Secures Guantanamo and Bahla Honda, on Cuban Coast. President Koosovolt ban slgnod tho agreement drawn up under tho terms of tho Plntt amendment, providing for tho acquisition by tho United 8tatcs of a navnl station at Guantanamo and a coaling station at Bahla Honda, both In Cuba. Tho document had boon previously pre-viously Blgncd by President Palma and was brought to Washington by Minis-tor Minis-tor Squlors. It docs not specify tho prlco of tho properties to bo acquired by tho United States, and this Jetall Is left to bo settled by tho usual legal condemnatory proceedings after tho navy department has decided exactly tho nmount of land It wishes at each place. With thesu two places properly fortified for-tified as navnl bases, tho Gulf of Mex-leo Mex-leo would not bo possible of occupation occupa-tion by n hostile fleet, nnd tho Carlb. bean sea would bo utisufo for an enemy. At Qunntanamu there will ho erected extensive coal docks, nnd perhaps per-haps n short Unu railroad to connect tho port with tho backbone railroad already finished by private enterprise. Bahla Honda will for some tlmo prob. ably bo used simply as a place for tlm storago of coal. |