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T is proposed to make Panama a military zone guarded by five to eight thousand men. This is not yet decided on. Foreign experts say that considering the strategic importance of the Canal in case of war, it should have in times of peace a constant guard of

By Agnes

been done there was to transfer the
permanent officers and ships formerly in
New Orleans and Pensacola to the south
side of Cuba. Graving or dry docks
similar to those at

New Orleans

ATLANTIC SQUADRON OF SIXTEEN BATTLESHIPS AT FULL
SPEED OFF CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS

"If the entire Atlantic Squadron were hovering off Cuba,
where would it get coal?"

thirty thousand men. But if you
deduct from the United States
regular army, all padded lists, all
absentees, invalids, officers, etc.,
the guard required for Panama
would practically take the back
bone of the United States Army.
One prominent American army
officer goes so far as to say that
when inaccuracies are eliminated
from the lists and empty corps,
the entire army in normal times
would not equal thirty thou-
sand!

A great point is being made of the defenses of Guantanamo, on the island of Cuba, yet naval officers assert that all that has

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enemy by sea.

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