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Hundreds of Miles of Peninsula
Lands Mis;ht Be Held and
Hostile Hands.
The bill for the fortification of the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which
has been ajritated for several years,
will in all probability be passed by
Congress an this session, and thus
the government will be able to guard
one of the most important points
along the Atlantic Coast.
The building of a fort on Cape
Henry, directly at the mouth of the
Chesapeake Bay, will give protection
to an even more valuable section 01
the country tnan the huge Panama
Canal, which is also to be fortified.
While the canal will represent a
cast outlay of money, .and will be
immensely valuable to this nation in
the event of war with either a Euro
pean or Asiatic country, the mouth
of the Chesapeake Bay once entered,
would give to the enemy easy access
to not only the capital ot the nation,
but the cities of Baltimore and Phil
adelphia, to say nothing of Annapolis
and the Naval Academy and the cit
ies of Norfolk, Newport News and
the great shipyards and coal- piers
represents g millions of dollars in
Hampton Roads.
Although there is a modern forti
fication at Fortress Monroe, and, to
a great extent, ships of a foreign
navy could be prevented from enter
ing the inner Hampton Roads were
they to steam in straight from sea.
yet should ships get pass Cape Henry
it would be possible for them to
steam up the Bay toward Baltimore
without getting within range of the
guns at Monroe.
Cape Henry, as will .be shown, is
the key to the Chespeake Bay. Un
less it is 'fortified in the most thor
ough manner it will be vulnerable
and an open invitation to an invasion
that would be difficult to repel.
The possibility of the United States
being invaded must, of course, be
considered from two main stand
points. First, in connection with the
vulnerability of our coast line de
fenses, and secondly, as to the forces
sent against us.
At the outset it may be said that
no one power could effect a wide
spread or permanent invasion, but it
may be reasonably feared that one
of several large powers might gain
control of one or more of our Im
potant strategic positions and inflict
(great punishment before this nation
could pif.ce itself In a condition to
drive out the enemy.
As to vulnerability, we may scan
the situation from Maine to Texas,
and thee from Texas on the Pacific
side to the northernmost edge of our
country, and, though seeing several
points (it which a hostile power
might Sf>ek to gain a foothold, no
part of our entire coast line presents,
In the hands of the enemy, such an
opportuElty for destuction of great
cities as does the Chesapeake Bay,
whose geopraphical nature is pecu
liarly fe.vorable to baffling aggres
siveness and continued occupancy. ?
It may confidently be said that the
power controling that body of water
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ly useless to this nation, the entire
peninsula formed by the Chesapeake
Bay, Atlantic Ocean and 'Deleware
River, as well as many mi'es of pen-1
i:isula land on the western side of,
the Bay
At no other part of our coast line,
could the transportation of troops
and munitions of war be so effectual-'
ly hampered, while, conversely, no
other part of our coast involves the
preservation of so many strategic ad
vantages and facilities for the speedy
transportation by land and water of
an army as would be afforded us by,
the control of the Che&a^ake, the]
key to which is the entrance ;ormed
by Cape Henry and Cape Ch irles,
whose natural advantages for resist
Tilled
ing a hostile fleet lies on the south
side, which is washed by the main
ship channel whose width abreast of
Cape Henry Lighthouse is less than
three statute miles between five
fathom lines.
Cape Henry is the natural Gibral
tar of the United State., and should
be made impregnable and impassable,
the necessity for which obtains be
cause iti s the key to our most
important of all strategic situations,
and because, with trie proper fortifi
cation of this point, fewer battleships
in the event of war would be here re
quired to aid in repelling the enemys
fleet. This means not only protec
tion to invaluable facilities at the
ports of the Chesapeake, the preserva
tion to our own and closure to a hos
tile fleet of the finest harbor, as yell
as the most important base of opera
tions we possess, but a virtual in
crease in the size and strengin of
our navy and its scope and effective
ness at other ports of our great coast
line.
The ports of New York, Boston ana
Galveston, representing, as they do,
the extreme poles or outlets of our
commercial conditions as well as
strategic advantages and untoil val
uations of property, lie almost within
gunshot of the ocean and would re-,
quire, in addition to their present de
fenses, all the reinforcement they
could iget from our "dogs of war."
Some idea of the strategic value
of the Chepapeake Bay for operaton
in case of war may be gleaned from
the fact that within its entrance"
there are 700 miles of water naviga
ble for vessels of 17 or 18 foot
draft; 550 miles o;r which are naviga
ble for vessels of 20 feet draft; 125
miles for ships drawing 25 feet, and
nearly 400 miles which may be trav
ersed by ships of ::0 feet draft. Thb
17 or 18 foot channel way admits a
small naval fry, such as torpedo boats
and destroyers, gun boats and other
vessels of light draft. The 20-foot.
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Proposed'Hop?
depth will accommodate second and
third class cruisers and many troop
and supply ships. The 25-foot depth
will admit of navigation by all sec
ond-class battle ships, first class
cruisers, scout and troop ships, and
in fact all auxiliary craft of a navy;
while nearly 400 miles of the Chesa
peake and its tributaries may be pen
etrated by warships of the Dread
naught type clear up to Baltimore.
What a scope for the -enemy's fleet
land what a national disaster to us?
the transportation of troops and
munitions of war, through the Chesa
peake and the proposed Inland Wa
terway cut off; the- deprivation of a
great proportion of the nation's fa
cilities for docking and repairing,
with the lost of the most central of
all coaling stations. Deprived of this
central base of operations, the ships
of our navy would be driven to seek
facilities, fuel and shelter in either
extreme northern or southern ports.
Not only cou'd a hostile fleet with
Impunity pass Fortress '.Monroe, but
a hundred?five hundred?troopships
of the "tramp" class and eggsshell
construction could with equal safety
pass up the Bay under cover of night
or during weather the least hazy or
misty. What gunnery or what
marksmanship could contest the pas
sage of battleships at a distance of
twelve and one-half miles, or even
I troopships when favored with dark
ness or during the day by haze or
I mist?
'Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport
News are accessible, as far as chan
nel accommodations are concerned,
to vessels of the Dreadnought type,
while the York River may be entered
tventy-two miles; the Rappahannock,
[thirty; the Potomac, thrty-five, and
[ the Patuxent River twentyrailes by
ships of the same class, to say noth
ing of the streams which empty Into
the eastern side of the Bay; while
Annapolis may be approached with
in a mile or two and the improve
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merits at the Academy, and for which
the government has spent millions
be utterly demolished.
The James, York, Rappahannock,
Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, navi
gable for distances varying from
forty to one hundred miles inland
by many large vessels of war, form
the four main peninsulas on the
western side of the Chesapeake,
whose width at the narrowest parts,
from channel to channel, ranges
from six to nineteen miles.
Battleships operating as the first
and last named (first above York
town and secondly from Patuxent
River or Bay) points could, without
co-operation of other vessels in con
tigious channels, command the two
peninsulas formed by the James and
York and the Patuxent River and
Bay, and the co-operative fire of
ships carrying long-range guns, lo
cated in our rivers as above outlined,
would thoroughly rake across the
three peninsulas lying between the
Patuxent and York Rivers.
The total length of peninsulas
commanded by the enemy's fire
(adding eight miles for inland
range) would be, respectively,
twenty-nine and one-half, thirty-two
thirty-eight, thirty-one and twenty
six miles, or a total command of
one hundred and fifty-six and one
half miles of these peninsula*.
Only reasonable possibilities of
strategic disaster are here dealt with,
while it is not altogether inconceiv
able that vessels of the enemy, cay
rying high-power guns, might pen
etrate the Potomac and other rivers
much farther than has been indl
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cated.
In possession of the peninsulas of
the Chesapeake, and the landing of
a large army, the enemy's position
for flank maneuvering would be most
advantageous, and the (American
army sent to repel them might find
itself between the enemy's force on !
land and the "dead lines" across the
peninsulas whVJh would be raked
by the hostile ships in our rivers.
With such a disaster to our present!
standing army confronting us, who
can say what, devastation might not
he wrought or what strategic ad
vantages gained by the invading
nation? Who can confidently deny
the possibilty of not only Baltimore
and Washington, but the cities of
New York. Boston, Philadelphia and
in fact all the ports of the Atlantic
SeoL>ard being bid under the ,ban of
heavy reprisals?pending the period
of army training of raw material?
The likelihood of any one nation
landing a force sufficient for wide
spread or permanent invasion, is of
course remote, but it is readily con
ceivable that in the first stages of
hostilities, suddenly precipitated, our
own land forces might suffer an over
whelming distaster, while concerted
invasion by several powers at this
point, would seriously endanger the
cities, defenses and facilities of the
entire Atlantic and Gulf coast line.
The formation of these western
peninsulas by the James, York, Rap
pahannock, Potomac and Patuxent
rivers, but a few miles between them,
pre. ents a etartlingly vulnerable
point of atack and possible invasion;
for here, the enemy, under perfect
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shelter from storms, could make a
demonstration of landing on either
peninsula,necessitating 'the concentra
tion of our forces at such point, while
he could, at his pleasure, shift his
pcjeiition either northwardly or
southwardly, Jand his forces and
march against the real point of at
tack and create ruin and devastaton
while our army would be forced by
the hostile ships in our rivers to
make a long detour to meet them.
Under such circumstances it be
comes aparent that a large army of
Americans would be required to de
fend each peninsula; else we might
ask ourselves (with the main
strength of our army drawn to d~i
fend a feigned point of attack, if
New York, Philadelphia, RalMmore.
or the National Capitol would be
safe?
Should it be thought necessary for
further protection of the bay, to
supplement the fortification at. Cape
Henry by additional defense, an is
land fort might be built in 14 or 15
feet of water,' north by west and
six and one-half miles off Cape Hen
ry. This would gfve to the fort at
the latter place command over the
northern channel <tt an extreme
j range of three and one-half miles;
making the entrance to that channel
practically impossible to such ships
as could, In the absence of resistance,
;go through. Several submerged
hulks to the existing shoals would
effectually close this entrance to .he
enemy's ships. In like manner could
the channel on the south side be
somewhat constricted.
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At le.'i?t six European physicians
of international fame nave .recently
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which also means cured, by the ap
plication, of . electric currents of
high frequency and low ten
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called diathermy, meaning "with or
by means of heat."
As this immediately suggests, the
electricity kills tbe cancer by turn
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the vitality and the venom out of
the cancer cells. This is actually
what does happen, apd it can b- done
without in-jury to the rest jf the
body because the cancerous sections
die at a temperature much .below the
point v.-here healthy human tissue
commences to be injured by heat.
The healthy human cells are not
killed until a temperature near the
boiling point is reached and the Am
eer cells are killed about 40 de
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the surface cancers have been com
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already to number far up in the
hundreds. \
Th? process is said to requ:.re the
most minute <are and the very high- ,
est sort of surgical dexterity. As a
result only specialists of lor.j. and
careful training can venture on this
sort of treatment. One vital point
is that the hsat, thus introduced into
the body, does not sporad itself
throughout the body as ordinary heat
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In the process the heat from the
peculiar electric current is produced
in the interior of the tissues which
are being treated. It is produced
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fails to carry it off to any important
extent. It results from this that the
great heat remains absorbed hy the
diseased tissues, and it is enabled
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It 4s a marvelous process. Fot
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is treated thus, <he section subjected
to the- current stays hot for many
hours, while the body in general
has no elevated temperature. When
there are bones near the cancer thus
i treated, these bones remain very hot
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' enormo;1? frequency and low ten
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As a result much of the poisonous
material thrown off by the cancer Is
cleaned up by the healthy blood
cells. The process is difficult and so
far demands most special and expert
handling, but it seems to hold out a
sure hope that a few years from now
many cancers can be cured which to
day are only attacked by the fcrtife
in most cases, and which are usually
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