Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-25
AL MOVING WEST
CLAIMED THAT WARSHlPS
WILL BRING MINES
Claimed That Warships Will Bring
Mines for Defensive 0per-
ations-Submarine
Squadron.

Washington, July 17.-While the adj
ministration is talking peace, dis
patches from all of the important
naval and army stations indicate that |
it is actively preparing for defense in
the event of war. The greatest activity
is being shown in the defense OF the
Pacific Coast, Hawaii and the Philip
pines, and it is now pretty generally
understood that by the first OF the
year every important American port
touched by the Pacific will be so thor.
oughly mined as to make successful
naval attack unlikely.
A great game is being secretly
played by the active men of the war
and navy departments. 1t is like a
coolly planned game of chess with the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the
Philippines as the important points on
the board, and the chessmen are war
ships and every other kind OF material
for warfare.
Westward and to the Far East all
the moves are being made, and while
the Philippines are drawing heavily
on the Western coast fors defense and
offensive appliances, the Eastern coast
is in turn being drained for the West
ern coast and here the war college is
planning most of the moves in the
games, and the torpedo station at
Newport is hard at work making
mines and torpedoes.
Right on top of the Examiners an
nouncement that practically the en-
lire American navy is to be assembled
on the Pacific coast late this year,
comes the additional news that every
( one of the ships leaving the Atlantic
: will carry fourteen defensive mines.
| give mines is considered good num-
I Der for a battleship to carry and with
! twenty ships sailing from this side oil
j the continent this means that $50
3 mines will be transported westward In
t addition to all that are sent on trans
ports and by rail.
: At Newport work is being kept UP
: night and day to hasten the accept
t ance of the submarine fleet consisting
of the Octopus, Cuttlefsh, Viper and
4 Tarantula. Crews are even now being
t prepared to man these boats as quickly
Y as they can be put in commission
: Lieutenant Charles U. Nelson, IN com
9 mand of the first submarine fleet, con
4 cisting of the Porpoise, Shark and
Plunger, has taken under his charge
t the men who are to 60 on the new sub
t marines They are being rapid,
: drilled and instructed so that when thu
G new boats are ready they will under
: stand how to sail them right out o
h Narragansett Bay, ready for acton.
: All of the enlisted men at the train
o ing station at Newport are being sen
G to sea If they have served less tina!
twenty years in the navy, and civilians
are being taken in at the station TO
instruction. The battleship Vermont
when she joins the Atlantic fleet. vii
: carry two hundred men from the sta
!, ton and between five and six hundre'
= more apprentices will soon go iron
;. the station to the different battleship
;. on the Atlantic 1t is the apparent In
IGNITION of the naval authorities Z
!. bring the crew of every ship up to 1t
,s full quota.
:, In addition to the two thousand de
- Tense mines year ago. the Newpor
station has three hundred mines nov
/, ready for shipment.