| Show TO COAL WORLDS NAVIES good reasons why every power keeps jealous eyes on all strategic ports every ever world bild power casts co coe cotou toun eyes ees on available sites for coaling ports for foi its naval and mercantile fleets on the confined slimes shores of the th yellow sta sea three great powers established coaling bases at port arthur at wei elul wel and at nino klao chau chail our own government with an ear open to faint sounds leeps keeps an ail eye ee peeled on st thomas Thom asand and the co coast a st of mexico ever watching matching for lay stert ous doings or slightest suspicion of transfer of domain to another power george harding writes in harpers to guard the trade routes and approaches pro aches to the gulf of mexico the navy department at washington has established a most important coaling base at guantanamo cuba thus nil all three routes to the gulf through the florida straits between key west and cuba through the windward passage between guantanamo Gunn tauamo and haiti and the passages either side of porto rico are now controlled by amer american 1 can bases in the pacific the coaling station of honolulu with a storage capacity of tons provides ample supplies for the needs of warships guarding tb flu approaches across the P pacific cefic in con to the gulf of mexico and t d the pacific routes the trade routes of the world tire are practically dominated in time of war by english coaling ports an essential ownership to england for of the at 47 important steamship companies odthe of the world orld today 32 of them are british |
