The general plans of the Navy for developing its fleet bases was made public. A board on "shore establishments," of which Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman is the head, has drawn up a program for developing two naval bases on the Pacific Coast, two on the Atlantic, one at Panama, one at Hawaii.
The four continental naval bases are to be situated at San Francisco, Puget Sound, New York, and Chesapeake Bay. They will be developed for strategic reasons, in the order named. Each of the four is to...
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