The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-23
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THAT ARMS SHIPMENT.

THAT ARMS SHIPMENT.
All Gum, the Mongolian mess boy OF
the liner Manchuria, is a thrifty Celes
tial The retainer that he receives
from Mr.. Hartman for waiting on the
Chinese sailors who man Mr.. Harri
mans big steamer is modest. Like Mr.
Hartman, however, All Gum is fnan-
cier and a natural born trader All
Gum has been in the habit of buying
ancient arms and other odds and ends
in this country, taking them to China
and selling them to his fellow country
men as modern weapons at large adj
vance on what he paid for them. Dur
ing the Manchuria s stay in port All
Gum, through a friend in Chinatown,
bought job lot of rusty Remington
rifles of twenty-five caliber, the kind
with which young America murders
squirrels and an occasional playmate.
One by one, by means known only to
All Gum, these rifles and 80 boxes of
cartridges were Struggled on board the
liner and hidden away in his room.
Now while there is no objection
under the laws of this land to the ship
ment of rifles and ammunition to China
the insurance companies object to the
indiscriminate slowing of ammunition
and Mr.. Hartman, who owns the
steamer, is not running it as an annex
to any enterprise of All Gum. The Pa
cific Mail regulations forbidding pri-
vate trading by any employee, white or
yellow, are very explicit and when
argus-eyed John Anderson, captain of
the watch, discovered All Gum s stock
of junk when inspecting the liner on
Wednesday afternoon, All Gum IS little
deal in firearms was all off. Rifles and
ammunition were confiscated and when
All Gum reaches Hongkong he and not
the rifles will be fired.
The suggestion that All Gum was in
a conspiracy to arm his cOuntrymen
for general uprising is tribute to
China s patience. There are ten steam
ers running between here and the ORR
ent. There may be an All Gum on each
steamer and Captain Anderson may
sometimes overlook a few rusty pistols
or ancient rifles, but even then by the
time any appreciable percentage of
China 8 400,000,000 people is equipped
with arms from this source China may
have forgotten her resentment against
foreigners. But All Gum bought rifles
just because they We're cheap. He
would have invested his money in
prayer books just as readily if the price
here and the demand in China were
such as to insure profit for All Gum.
San Francisco Cali. March 9.
MUTINY ON MASSACHUSETTS.
NEW YORK, March 6.-A mutiny.
in which one life was lost, occurred
today on board the steamer Massa-
chusetts. which was lying at her dock
at Brooklyn. James Slocum, a fire.
man, was killed during a revolver bat
tie on the steamers deck, in which
the firemen We're ranged on one side
and opposing them We're the ships Of /
fcers and members of the crew.
Sounds of the fighting caused re- !
serve of police to be hurried to the +,
steamer, but the firemen who had
started the trouble had been driven
into submission before the police ar -
rived. Six members of the crew were
arrested, as We're also First officer
Albert J. Evans and Fourth officer
Elmer H. Kermen. All We're held as
witnesses. Kermen's home is in Bal
timore, Nd.
The mutiny has been brewing, ac-
cording to the officers, ever since the
steamer left Cardiff, February 5. The
iremen We're the chief disturbers, it
was alleged, making continual COM
plants about their food. The crew,
however. sided with the officers. Dur
ing the voyage from Cardiff there We're
almost daily fist fights on the steam
er, all growing out of the surly temper
Of the two opposing factions. The
continued until the Massa-
chusetts arrived in Brooklyn, several
lays ago.
Some of the firemen spent last night
n the city and the quarrel began i'm
nediately upon their return to the
vessel today. The Massachusetts, was
expected to sail today for San Fran
,isco.
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