[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.