The New York Times/1918/11/11/Great Lakes Navy Station Enlarged
Great Lakes Navy Station Enlarged
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Additional land and ship facilities at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and the Puget Sound (Wash.) Navy Yard and for a permanent Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., will be taken over by the Government, under a proclamation by President Wilson, made public today. Authority to acquire the land was given in the Naval Appropriation bills approved July 1. Compensation is to be made in the usual way.