Show taft believes this Country js now impregnable new york oct 9 no foreign navy could successfully assail our seaboard cities with the present efficiency of our forts rendered impregnable by tho anre control system sweeping a zone hat would bring annihilation lation to any fleet within range of the batteries guns the sea board cities are safa from foreign invasion said secretary bowar W H taft yesterday jp returned saturday enthusiastic from liis visit to fort hamilton and san dy hook to be sure a squadron approach under of tog in san francisco particularly where fogs and dense leather prevail the situation would offer more advantages to an attacking force with the development of and submarine systems however which has been satisfactory and which will continue in appropriations for the purpose coast jellies will be sate eveni should the clements favor the approach of an enemy there are plenty of guns on tho atlantic to defend but there must be no diminution of artillery or change made in the plans to increase its strength secretary taft said that ho would start boac time about the first of november on hia gnp to panama 1 I do not expect to spend more than three days on the isthmus this time he said the president asked me to go and I 1 fuel that it Is necessary the work meets our approval in a great many ways but there is one phase of it which we believe could be improved and must be improved at once that is in providing quarters for the men we are sending down there and in making these men com fordable air wallaces idea was that our first work should bo to find out how much dirt we could excavate in a given time and what was the cost I 1 believe the first thing to do Is to sec that the men down there are comfortable for table and that when they get through a nine hour day in the tropics with tendency to devitalize a man they shall havo to go far amusement have something to read and wont be induced to take up brandy and soda I 1 shall examine ery carefully the quarters that have been built already and push tho work along I 1 shall also soo how the money has spent down there secretary taft expects to meet his wife and family when they arrive on the steamer Kro onland this morning and to go to washington later in the day |