Government Closes Ports.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 17, 1912:
Foreign Vessels Barred from Harbors to Protect Military Secrets.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.— For the protection of military secrets of the United States, President Taft to-day issued an executive order forbidding foreign vessels to enter the following ports without the special authority of the Navy Department:
    Tortugas, Fla.; Great Harbor, Culebra; Guantanamo, Cuba; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Guam and Subig Bay, Philippine Islands.
    These ports are American naval bases. The order declared that they were not sub-ports of entry, and should not be made such. It specifically closes the harbors to commercial and privately owned vessels of foreign register, as well as to the warships of foreign powers, unless the Secretary of the Navy sanctions their entry.