The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
Soviet Offers
 Control of Pacific
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 The full details of the offer were
 set forth by MT. Vanderlip for the | Int. News Service in the following I statement:
 ''We have obtained from the pres snt Russian govern1nent in connec- ton with the concession of 10000 square miles in Kamchatka a conces- sion for two naval bases on the Rus sian Pacific coast to be held in per tpetuity by the United States of Amer Eica- One is at Avatcha Bay. It is tdeep water harbor, sufficiently large ! to float the biggest navy in the world. The harbor is 1andloclSed with cliffs.
 The natural projections make it ssstronger even than Gibraltar We t-could make it the strongest naval base ia bay-iS near VladivoStok (the east S-ern terminus of the Trans-Siberian tsEaifway)-
 ! -Our agreement, which includes fator Henry Cabot Lodge They are kacondihonal only upon the reopenlng kof trade by the United States with eRussia- While the Kamchatka com snercial concession is limited to sixty Syears of life. these bases would be Eceded to the United States for all Etime.
 ~The report which H. G. Wells rbrought from Russia regarding this swas perfectly correct He obtained sflis information through a diplomatic
 
 At that time publication of the news E1night have caused diplomatic difhcul- fties with Japan Our fleet then was divided dn the Atlantic and Pacific f.There was a furry of excitement at the Kremlin Oenine's official resi- dence) at Moscow, when a subordin- ate interpreter, a former London tenion to the slip that had been made revealing the naval base plans to Wells.
 
 following day. I learned of the in E-cident and went to George Tchitcher- lin, ffhe Commissar for Foreign Af- fairs in the SoVfet) Upon my advice five days technicaity regarding his passports In the meanwhile diplomatic denial was prepared and issued We both agreed to discredit Wells as a novelist and a dreamer be- cause of the urgency of the situation ] with its possibilities of threat sagadnst our peace at a time when We were unprepared The situation sdemanded that any fears in the East S7be a1layed quickly.
 "A few weeks later arrived in ErNew York On Dec f. I went to The was i'll with influenza After wait ing g. week in hope that he would re kcoEer sufficiently to see me, I turned Sover to his secretary copies of my kdcontracts drawn at Moscow. would $snot trust the Wilson admtn1stratlon sthen in power, nor would l allow Ethem to know the details was ad- Fvised not to mention the factS to any ;aother government officials Soon after the Harding admins Stration came into office on March 4, E4as we all know, the Atlantic fleet kmoved into the Pacific News of this Ereached me in Russia (for I was in Russia at the tnne) and now I feel pfree to make this announcement
 -The British have coveted Ava;tcha EBay for 15O years They fought a o ocTn iwere beaten by the Russians It is a ERnssfan dictum that whoever controls Avatcha Bay controls the Pacific
 ~vatcsaa Bay is ten by twenty miles sfn extent and is reached by tor ktuous passage through 6OO root cnns. r The water becomes frozen in winter s+fut can be kept open by ice break Eers It is impregnable against land 2 attack Back and beyond the bays 5 are miles of the heaviest jungle un- on earth could penetrate.
 s<NTth this base the American navy s<-zn form a triangle of defense pro. tectine Alaska, the western coast or Ethe United States and the Pacific pos Esessions There could be three Esereat bases (two of them already es- Etablished) at Ayatcha, Puget sound Rand HaWad
 s-Ayratcha is only 24 hours from k Alaska by fast steamship and IS two Sdays by fast steamer S ron tn1n SDrtneTn HraTa
 
 Eships no Japanese navy would dare sto leave the Japanese coasts unpro- 5tected to steam to attack the United EStates It would not be safe for Gthe Jzpanese fleet to leave Japanese ,se~ysters until Avatcha was reduced or &captured- I would advise Americans
 vho are interested in the defenseS or
 r western coast to read Gen. Ho- .ner Iea's book, ''The Valor of 1gnor- kInce"
 fNs~Thfs book would give under .+t5ndinsr Of the need for such protec- Efin as this valuable base would af- "A harbor near v1adivostok is to be ace&ed to the Vanderlip Syndicate in <&petufty for an oil and coaling sta- f5A My idea would be for America Sfo $erect a powerful airplane base It is bnly a three hour flight to the Jap anese coast
 1srhere are people who would be ak4rasst at my proposal doubtless to penetrate behind Japan'S back, but E England has naval stations through f s,z1t tie world, Strategica1ly placed for fouerations against any nation. We S nave no such projections"
 MT. Vanderlip plans to leave Lon zdon in about week He came to T,ondon from Riga While in Riga thfs American passport was cancelled, t1,11t he was enabled to travel to Great ERritain by means of a photograph kvfse.i by the British consular author ktdes.
 I1weu Sherman is to appear in kArauratic productions for Mack Sen