important Government gun factories in the United States. It produces
the 12, 14 and 16-inch all steel rifled guns for the harbor defenses
and is fitted out with enormously expensive machinery for making
many other different types of ordnance. Its exposed situation, under
our present conditions of defenselessness, has long been a cause for
anxiety.
[142] It has been pointed out often that within a radius of less than
a hundred miles around New York City there is a large percentage of
the works and factories on which the Government depends for much of
its war material.
[143] Vessels actually building in places named when the last annual
edition of the Navy Year Book was published.
[144] Strength of total force, including all individuals, October
1, 1914, 10,740. It is held that New York’s conformation, long and
narrow, makes it an unusually easy city to control, as it is possible
to prevent mobs from combining, and trouble can be confined to limited
areas.
[145] Bureau of Census, U. S., 1914.
[146] Census Office Tabular Statement issued in 1911. Figures are for
all boroughs of Greater New York, and include only establishments
conducted under factory system. Building and similar industries and
small establishments producing less than $500 worth of products a year
are not counted.
[147] Paragraph 373, Acts Punished As War Treason: Rules of Land
Warfare, published for the information and government of the armed
land forces of the United States, April 25, 1914.
[148] “A town surrounded by detached forts is considered jointly with
such forts as an indivisible whole, as a defended place. A place that
is occupied by a military force or through which such a force is
passing, is a defended place.”--Bombardments, Assaults and Sieges,
Rules of Land Warfare, U. S. A.
[149] Office of Naval Intelligence, July 1, 1914.
[150] Practical completion of battery construction and armament,
power plants, fire control, searchlight installation and supply of
ammunition reported by Chief of Coast Artillery, September 19, 1914.
[151] Congress has appropriated comparatively little for the needs of
Guantanamo Harbor.
[152] Usually one of the first orders given to the occupants of
occupied territory.
[153] The practice laid down for our own army and followed in the
Insular campaigns.
[154] Paragraph 301, Rules of Land Warfare, U. S. A., 1914.
[155] This is one of the rules accepted among all nations and followed
by all armies.
[156] Issued during the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria and cited by
recent writers as acknowledged precedents.
[157] “While a military government continues as an instrument of
warfare, used to promote the objects of invasion, its powers are
practically boundless.”--Magoon, Law of Civil Government under
Military Occupation, U. S. Bureau of Insular Affairs.
[158] Table 4, 13th Census, Volume 8. The Metropolitan District, as
referred to in this sense, comprises Greater New York and the New
Jersey manufacturing counties that contain Newark, Bayonne, Paterson,
Hackensack, Passaic, Rutherford, etc.
[159] Spaight, an authority, says that “practically everything under
the sun” may be requisitioned and cites the case of a boot-jack being
demanded for army use. See quotation and rulings of U. S. Army.
[160] Under Hague Rule, Article LIII, it is held that “everything
susceptible of military use” may be requisitioned, and modern army
practice defines this as meaning anything from telegraph wire to canal
boats.
[161] Not a large sum as compared with some imposts laid on quite
small and unimportant towns in wars during the past century. One such
levy was $1,000,000 from one town in one day, according to European
writers.
[162] See case of seizure by Major General Otis of $100,000 from
Philippine bankers, being money owned by insurgents and payable on
presentation of a draft held by insurgents. Report, Charles E. Magoon,
Law Officer, Division of Insular Affairs, 1902.
[163] List of non-assessable Federal property, N. Y., 1914.
[164] At present it is considered that one military flying machine in
two months is good speed of production.
[165] Result of inquiry made by U. S. Army after tests on Texas border
had developed the high value of motor trucks for war.
[166] Orders issued by War Department, March 6, 1911, for
concentration at San Antonio, Texas, of maneuver division of three
infantry brigades, one field artillery brigade, an independent cavalry
brigade and the necessary auxiliary troops. Strength should have been
15,669 officers and men. On March 31 the division mustered only 11,254
men. On April 30 it had reached a strength of 12,598. On May 30 it
numbered 12,809. It never reached its full required strength and it
did not reach its maximum actual strength until three months after it
had been ordered out. On Feb. 21 and 24, 1913, three brigades of the
second division were ordered to mobilize at Texas City and Galveston.
This force did not reach its maximum strength till June 30, 1913. See
Report of Major General Carter, U. S. A.
[167] Table 26, page 262, Report, Chief of Division of Militia
Affairs, U. S. A., October 1, 1914.
[168] Census of Manufactures, U. S., 1910.
[169] Report, Brigadier General A. L. Mills, U. S. A., 1914.
[170] Secretary of War Garrison says: “It will require six months at
the lowest possible estimate to equip, organize, train, drill and make
ready our volunteers.”
[171] Census Bureau, Volume 8.
[172] From Tax Lists, New York City and Boston, and assessable values
of New England, U. S. Census Bureau.
[173] Many so-called “non-intercourse acts” were passed during the
Civil War. These authorized the President both to prohibit and to
license and permit intercourse and trade with belligerent territory.
Under these acts President Lincoln permitted the purchase of cotton in
the south, and his procedure was upheld by the United States Supreme
Court on the ground that “the United States has power to permit
intercourse with an enemy during the time of war.”
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Typographical error corrected by the etext transcriber:
one of the men in Wash-ton=> one of the men in Washington {pg 156}