AMERICA IN THE PACIFIC.
STRENGTHENING THE FLEET. By Tclccraph—Press Association—Copyrieht. New York, January G. A deputation, composed of Pacific Coast Senators and members of the Houso of Representatives, waited on President ■Taft, to urge on him the necessity for more submarines and torpedo boat-s for , the Pacific Coast. The reply of Mr. Taft was understood to bo favourable. At a congress representing the principal public bodies on the American Pacific , Coast a' resolution was carried in November, urging Congress to provide immediately navnl bases, properly equipped for the use and maintenance of a battleship fleet on the Pacific Coast, and asking that the regular Army ,bo increased by at least twenty-fivo regiments of infantry, with proportionate additions of field artillery ' and cavalry, so that the western fortified 'harbours may be protected from land attack and the Pacific Coast be given a guarantee against invasion.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 6
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144AMERICA IN THE PACIFIC. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 6
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