The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-05-02
HURRY WARSHIpS
TO CALIFORNIA;
COASTL|NE PORTS
War Department Hurriedly Sending
Guns to Panama and Mount
ing Them on West Coast.
CAN SEND ATLANTIC FLEET
Through the Panama Canal Soon:
Wilson and Other Officials
Silent as to Reason.
CAN SEND ATLANTIC FLEET

Wash 'naton. May 1.-The shadow
OF silence has been thick upon the
White House today Not word or
a comment has escaped from the Of
fee of the president. Telegrams
from Secretary Bryan from Cali
fornia have been coming in all day.
a stenographic report of all
Bryan conferences with the COVER
nor and legislature of California
have been laid by wire upon the
desk Of tho President Mr. Wilson
has spent the day in poring over
this report and these dispatches.
Late in the evening. contrary to his
usual custom of seeing the news
paper men, he sent out the simple
announcement:
q have nothing to say. can
not be expected to comment upon a
situation so delicate"
Coacede Failure Of Mission.
II Is fully conceded at the White
House and elsewhere that Mr., Bry-
ans mission TO California has been
an utter failure, II in given out
thai the President declares he has
doae all that it was possible for tho
chief executive to do,
The only item that comes from
the White House is the statement
That tYeorge W Guthrie, late mayor
of Pittsburgh is appointed the
new minister to Japan
al the state Department John
Rassett Moore, acting secretary, has
not one word TO give out to the pub
Tic He has spent the day In fire.
quent interviews with the President
The rest OF the time he has been as
siduously al his desk
The War Department followed the
same tactics Of absorption and
silence. There is activity in every
department today but 1t IL carefully
given ont that nothing they are do
ing has any reference to Japan.
1ha diplomatic assurance Is de-
signed To avoid anything that
might carry a remote suggestion of
mobilization which would be oon-
straed Ms hostile act by Japan.
From private. but authentic
sources, these things are learned:
The armored cruiser South Da-
kota has been ordered TIP from
Acapulco, Mexico. by the Navy De-
partment. whose orders in this case
date from suggestions of the state
Department.
Cruiser to California.
The armored cruiser Colorado has
been ordered from the west coast 70
roprrt at ASH Diego IT is stated
that the smalled draft vessels are
all that is required for the Mexican
ports on the Pacific coast. The
Annapolis will take the place OF the
South Dakota. All the vessels OF
larger Importance on the west coast
Of Mexico will be transferred to the
Pacific coast as soon as possible
Each statement is accompanied with
the Diplomatic assurance that il ha.
no reference TO Japan
There was renewed in the Wal
Department today q sudden anxiety
to set the defenses of the Panama
Canal into immediate commission
y transpires that four or five Of tn,
fourteen-inch guns which are beins
uanufactured in this country are t.
DC sh dipped Immediately to the wesf
eost Ct the Panama Canal It il
stated ihat the force OF Iaborers a
either end OF the canal will sssist il
the employment work.
The big slxteen-inch gun, She car
riaec fer which Is nearly completet
/. ST sards Hook, VII be the first to b
dispatched to the canal zone.
Guns Rushed to Panama.
It has radius OF about twentl
miles,
Tho defense of the Panam;
Canal on the west side particularly
Il matter Of supreme concern
There Is not cne strong vessel o
squadron Of the navy on the Pacia
Coast that could prevent a Japanes
squadron from getting near enougl
q Tie canal to destroy the westerl
terminal. The high-power long
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