Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 504, 23 January 1902 — COST OF PROVIDING COAST DEFENSE FOR HAWAII AND GUAM [ARTICLE]

COST OF PROVIDING COAST DEFENSE FOR HAWAII AND GUAM

WASHINGTON. January 13—Secretary Root has sent to Congress es timates of $307,000 for the defenses of the island of Guam and SS26,xXK) for the defenses of Hawaii. The defenses of Guam are to include a seacoast battery, $142,000; defensive sites. $45,000, and torpedo batteries mines, etc., $125 000. The defenses of Hawaii are to include those about Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. Genera! Gillespie, chief of engineers, tsates in the estimates that these defenses are urgently needed to protect the newly

acquired territory if the United States, and to prevent the interruption of cable communication, these islands being in the line of the projected cable.