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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XL, Issue XL, 27 January 1911, Page 3

Mr Humphrey, a member of the United States House of Representatives, speaking at Detroit, said that Japan could seize Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland, the five transcontinental railway routes, aud the Bremerton navy yards, and could fortify - the mountain passes before the United States could despatch 75,000 troops to the Pacific coast. The United States navy would be helpless, because it needed merchant vessels, and the army was too small. Quick and adequate protection should be arranged between Chricagoand Rock Island*