The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-01
LOCAL END OF THE STORY.
Perhaps There Will Be Scrap With
the Japs.

Captain ROsehill, master of the
schooner Julia 10. Whalen, may be
cruising off Marcus Island today in
company with the warship Kasaga,
which was sent to the island by the
japanese government to prevent the
Yankee skipper from effecting a land
ing. This is the belief of Thomas Fitch,
one of the Honolulu promoters of the
enterprise which has for its object the
retention of Marcus Island under the
American flag, and the securing Of the
guano deposits thereon for shipment to
the American mainland.
Mauser rifles, plenty of ammunition,
courage and the national colors are be-
ing relied upon by the Marcus Island
company to take possession against the
resistance that may be offered by the
japanese fishermen who are said TO be
living on the lonely spot Even IL the
japanese warship threatens the Amer
leans with punishment II they dare to
effect a landing, Captain Rosehilrs in
structions, now made public for the
first time, are to place the American
flag in his shore boat and go ashore at
all hazards. 1t is limited here that in
ternatiOnal controversies may result
from the forCible election of American
citizens from territory which is claim
"a to be American Soil by right of dis
covery, possession and documentary
evidence now on file with the State De-
Tartment at Washington.
Thomas Fitch, upon being shown the
dispatch yesterday to the effect that a
japanese warship had sailed for Mar
Gus Island, sad:
IF the japanese government did not
serve notice on the State Department
until July "a, as stated in the dispatch.
the notice was not received by our gov
In ffY,na Ia I'D Nric IN in
Rosehill to offer no resistance If he
should fall in with japanese warship.'
for the Julia Il. Whalen sailed from
Honolulu on July 10. If the japanese
Marship referred to in the dispatch
sailed from Yokohama on July %, she
viii probably have reached Marcus,
which is about 500 miles from Yoko-
hama, before the Whalen gets there.
! think il altogether probable that the
JAPANESE consul in Honolulu sent word
to bis government either by the Peru.
which left Honolulu on July 16, and
would reach Yokohama about the Path
or 18th, or by the China, which left
here July Is, and would reach San
Francisco July Il. from which place
Cablegrams could be sent.
Il feel at liberty to state now, what
what was not given to the press before.
what We're the instructions to Captain
lSoSenlll wren ne leit honolulu, Dy
which he VIII be governed because no
advices sent by the State Department
could possibly reach him unless they
We're cabled TO Yokohama and carried
to him by the japanese warship. which
is not likely, as she had already sailed,
or unless there is an American govern
ment vessel at Yokohama and fnstruc-
tons were cabled to her to proceed to
Marcus Island to give orders to Cap
tain Rosehill.
The company's instructions were
that on arriving at Marcus. IL any re-
sistance was offered to his landing
there, To present to them a commnnica-
ton i'm japanese. and also to assure
them by a Japanese member of the
Whalen's crew, that no interference
with any rights, either to the japanese
government or fishermen there. was in
tended by Captain Rosehill's expedi-