The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-22
BATTLE SHIPS TO BE DISPATCHED
TO HAWAII.
A Grievance Against the United States
Emigration from Kobe to the
Islands Has Been Stopped.

According to advices by the Doric |
this morning, the Japanese Govern |
ment is aroused over the refusal of the |
Hawaiian Government to permit the !
Shinshiu Maru immigrants to land !
here, and has ordered war ships to Ho- |
nolulu to enforce what the japanese
immigrants choose to consider their
rights. The Foreign Office instructed
the Hiogo Kencho at Kobe, on the 9th
inst. to stop the departing of any i'm
migrants for these islands at once.
Grave complications have arisen, ac-
cording to the japanese official news
papers, over the action of the United
States Government in sending the
Philadelphia here. The Japanese Of
fetal organs claim that the cruiser has
been sent as menace to the japanese
Government and is significant in that
at fortells the annexation of the
islands to the United States.
The Kokumin is of opinion that this
refusal of the Hawaiian authorities to
let japanese emigrants land is merely
the first steps towards affiliation or
amalgamation with the United States.
1t says further that the japanese Gov
ernment is opposed to the union and
that it has been definitely decided to
send warships to Hawaii, and that the
Minister for the Navy will select ves-
sells for the service from those in the
standing squadron in the near future.
The Yohiuri remarks that the Shin
shiu Maru, should be sent back again
under the escort of japanese warships
and the landing of the emigrants de-
manded. Should the demand be re-
fused, Mr.. Shimamura, japanese Min
lister, should be instructed to open
strong negotiations. 1t also suggests
mand compensation from Hawaii.
For years past, says the Kokumin,
Hawaii has been desirous of entering
the North American union, and since
Mr.. Mckinley was elected President
she has redoubled her efforts to
achieve her desire. Mr. Hoshi, Japan
ese Minister at Washington, was sa-
gacious enough to telegraph to the
authorities at Tokyo in the latter part
of March last calling attention to the
subject. simultaneously with the re-
fusal of the Hawaiian Government to
permit the landing of a number of
japanese laborers, the United States
despatched men-of-war to Honolulu
on the preteXt that they were required
to protect American citizens in Ha-
waii, but their true object was to make
a kind of demonstration against the
objections of the japanese as to the
refusal of landing. The japanese Gov
ernment now, apprehending that the
matter has taken serious turn, de-
cides to send men-of-war to the is
lands. The annexation question not
only has an influence over some $1,000
Japanese laborers already in Hawaii
but it also bears upon the future OF
the japanese people; consequently this
Government should take most decisive
steps to prevent the contemplated
union.
The japanese official newspapers are
full of war talk such as this. The
been received by the japanese author
tiles to the effect that England has
sent an intimation to the U. S. Govern
ment that she objects to the intended
annexation by the latter of the Hawai-
Republic. The Sekai-no- Nihon says
that series of telegraphic communi
cations are at present passing between
the U. S. Legation in Tokyo and the
Z. S. Government, and is of opinion
that they relate to the refusal of the
Hawaiian Government to permit Jap
anese emigrants to land.
The Japan Daily Advertiser, a con
servative Government organ, printed
in English, says in this connections:
'If the authorities at Honolulu hav,
, without notice introduced regulations
of a more stringent character thar
, formerly, designed to exclude or large
ly restrict the entry of japanese, tina
/ is a subject upon which representa-
tions may quite reasonably be ad
dressed to the Government of the Re
, public. But if it should appear tha
by mistake or by roguery a large pro
: portion of the Shinshiu Maru's carg
of laborers were not qualified to ente
the islands under such regulations a
had governed the admission of pre-
e vious patches of immigrants it is dill
!. ficult to see what action Japan ca
g take