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Show THIS COUNTRY IS IN GREAT DANGER Can Be Raided by Aeroplanes From Ships Off the American Ameri-can Coast. BALTIMORE. Md . March 13 Rear Admiral Peary, addressing a prepar-, edness meeting for children today, declared de-clared that the United States must! spend energy, brains and money gnr-ouely gnr-ouely on its defence or It would find! with war on its hands a host of aeroplanes aero-planes sailing over its seaboard cities, dropping bombs. He said that in a few months three ships entered Hampton Roads without any bint being given of their coming j The Appam, smaiievt of the three, be said, could easily have housed a squadron squad-ron of aeroplanes and each aeroplane could easily have carried a thousand pounds of explosive. The vital need at present, he de-! clared to be a dependable coast patrol system from Eastport to Brownsville and from San Diego to Cape Flan, rj |