The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-06-26
MOVING FORTS ON
ATLANTIC COAST
Armored Trains With Big
Guns Plan of the War
Heads
, HEAD CAMP EUSTIS
Pa, ries of Heavy ARTILLERY
Can Be Moved Quickly to
Any Point Needed
nv r. y. sANptFER

WASHINGTON, June 25.-.Moy-
,rr .tr,sscs. camouflagc, strc1kcd
and .Dlching l6-inch projectlcs.
MA. come day Keep IN enemy fleet
a. nas ~ vita. spot on Americas
Tr.c "fortrcsscs' viii be fqrmid
.b'o .roups of the 2-ccntime'er'
,sn, gun. mountd on railway car-
rir.s which VIII be used FOR the
prs. ruc as coast dofenscs.
TiN2ng from European war cx-
rar....es that the powerful long
,4rs. guns now carried by battle
shIas make permanent fortifioatious
I'd, Fashionable value in defending
,yr ..lsts from an attack at sta, the
ua- department is rapidly building
ur fte long contemplated system OF
...N4g artillery with which IL is
,,ruiIly hoped to guard our coasts.
DI. coast dotenscS are as strong
as ~ possible FOR such works TO be-.
aJ, fGc fact that they are In fixed
ro. .un and the fact that 1t is pos
sh.. to locate them, make other de
fer.gs desirable, II not actually cs-
,er'1I The capture by Japanese
and British storming parties OF the
powerful sunken turrcts comprising
fhe licenses Of Using Tau, German
China, early in the war, following
hnmhardment from the sea, has
demonstrated that this character Of
for, us not as secure as had been
formerly considered.
Heavy Artillery on Hand
A. prdingly the war department
-c0nc,vcd some time ago the plan Of
experimenting our fixed coast de-
iense- with movable batteries mount
44-r =. a.
rail from point to point. This would
mean that, in addition TO the station
ary batteries making UP the regular
iortifications of a seaport. other
groups of batteries, equally powerful
and r1pable OF moving TO any ad D..
vaua'goous point or to any threat
ened point. could keep up smash -
ing fire on the enemy fleets without
having 10 wait there aftcrward while
said enemy got the range and re-
turned the compliment. This Is the
general plan.
Il did not progress 80 rapidly until
the close OF the war found the war
department. holding in its hands
more big guns, with movable rail
way mounts Of the latest tvpe than
they over though, they would get.
So they set to work ad fun report
n their progress and n new list of
the technical requirements OF the
new enrv!Ce have been made to con-
srcss and may be made public later.
Camp Iustis. Virginia. Chosen.
il is proposed to esta blish the first
regular railway system adapted TO
the use Of railway guns at pOint
within strategic distance of the area
which military experts have Calcu-
lated an enemy undoubtedly would
pick II he sought TO reach
The vital spots OF our Atlantic
coast. For the purpose Of the de-
fense chain war department experts
have selected a former war camp,
Camp Eus,is, Virginia. and asked
that IL he hold by the government
from the general sale OF camps and
turned over 10 the military authori-
ties. This camp. it - said, is the only
one now ready which is adaptable to
the peculiar purposes Tor which II
is wanted, First, it is stratcgically
located so that 1t is desirable a4 a
permanent area. Second, n already
has 22 miles of trackage and ls ac-
cossihlo to a main trunk line, $50 thai
IL can he linked UP with another