The Cairo bulletin., 1913-05-25
Military Experts Know Mikado's
Campaign Involving Three
Points on Pacific.
OUR FLEET is TIED UP TIGHT
Washington Awaiting Crisis il
Mikado's Condition. Postpone
Diplomatic Conference.

Washington, May 24.-The Army
War college has in It's possession the
most important outlines OF Japan's
campaign against the western part
OF the United States in the event OF
war between the two countries.
This plan is equally well known
to the state department.
An official of the war col ege ex-
planned the Japanese theory OF at
tack today.
"The principal objective of this
campaign, he said, is Puget Sound.
The next most important part is the
border line OF Mexico The third
most salient point is feint on our
east or threat to invest the port OF
San Francisco.
The plan is not bad one, assum-
ing of course, that conditions not
be changed in the United tSates by
the time the Japanese fleet in three
squadrons could arrive on the Amer
lean Pacific coast,
1t Is certain, nevertheless, that a
Japanese feet with 200 auxulliarics
in the way of transports could ar
rive off the western coast of the Uni
ted States before the Atlantic bat
tleship fleet of the United States
cou.d arrive in the same water.
Japs Study Campaign.
THE selection of Puget Sound by
the japanese army staff as the key
of the campaign shows that they
had studied the situation accurately
and from a point of view that has
worried our army experts for the
last ten years.
1T happens the entrance of Puget
Sound is so wide for a long ways
into the interior, and the current is
SO swift that it is impossible to
gnard either the the main channel
with submerged torpedoes or to di-
vide 1t into effective mine fields"
las we gather it from our agents
abroad, the Japanese purpose would
be that, while threatening San Fran
cisco, and causing concentration
there of American naval forces, an
infrrior Japanese squadron as a
convoy would take northwestern
coast. | do not think that an
American fleet or squadron, follow.
in the therettical plan of the Japan.
ese army staff, would find any diff.
ficulty Pin conveying fifty or 100
transports with thousand men eact
and landing the men in the north
western part of our country. i
seems strange that so bod a schem,
could be entertained, and yet 1t ii
feasible and could only be met b,
the destruction of the Japanese crui
ser convoy before it entered the
sound or in the sound. The diff
culties are very much the same al
those that are recognized by the ar
my experts as to Chesapeake Bay
where the forts are so wide apar
that a fleet entering the ba,
would be out OF gunshot on eithe
side.
Prepared on Order.
THE plan as to the northwes
contemplates swift action, and a TAX
! ing or the country on the north a
far as the Mississippi river. TIL
other feature which contemplate
the use of the army is forced use o
Dexican territory. Strangely enough
1t is precisely along the Mexican ter
ritory that the United States is bes
equipped to prevent the entrance in
to the country of anything but
very serious column of an enemy
At the present time the best caval
ry of the United States is concentra
ted on the Mexican border.
"The Japanese. entrance into Mex
lean territory would be by a pla
which.has long been discussed, bu
which has not until very recent
been intelligently connected wit
the army staff plan as to the north
ern part of the United States vi
Puget Sound and the demonstration
fem 11,,dod IN Do ~. EfrhSS