Hawaii — page 109: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

. 100 SOME OTHER ISLANDS AND TOWNS. _ and then again it is too near the open sea for security. — For thousands of miles both west and south there are no | enclosed harbors in any of the groups of islands. Now that the United States has Pearl Harbor, we pos- — sess the complete monopoly and mastership of the Pacific Ocean, north of the Equator. | From a naval point of view it is easily seen that Pearl Harbor is the prize jewel of the Hawaiian group. “It is the main element which perfects the incalculable strate- gic value of the group.”’ | If an enemy to the United States had possession of the Hawaiian Islands and Pearl Harbor he would be within easy striking distance of the Pacific ports of the United States, and could at once kill all the commerce of these ports. | Now that Pearl Harbor belongs to the United States an enemy has no coaling or supply station near enough for efficient damage. This has been fully demonstrated by Captain Mahan and other American naval authorities. ¢ comicbooks com