Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-17
JAPANESE SPY
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New York World Throws
Few Side Lights
On Fakes

the World says 1t is now admitted
| by all the officials of the American
Government that tie japanese are
the most wonderful people in the
world. They are not only marvellous
ly skilful in producing works of art
| they are not only the greatest imita-
tors known, but they have captured
the palm for making remarkable dis
coveries
Two mysterious Japanese spies have
been detected making sketches of the
fortiticati lions at the Washington
NavyYard, where no Notifications
exist. These Japs were elected from
the yard by the Government officials
and have disappeared absolutely, ac-
cording to a sensational story pub
lished in local paper here this after
noon. Now the officials are sorry
they allowed these spies to escape
and search for them is being made
in the bores of the great guns, in
the printing holes and even in the
melting pots.
These wonderful little fellows are
now in great demand by the Govern
ment If they can be located the ma
ton will be saved the expense of for
tifying the coasts, as it will be nee
essary only to turn them loose with
their imaginations will appear as if
by magic at all our ports.
All the Notifications protecting
Washington are located several miles
down the Potomac River, and after
the publication of the story many of
the leading officials visited the navy
yard to see the great Notifications
there that were discovered by the
spies.
Acting Secretary of War oliver to-
day directed Major Gatchell, in COM
mand of Fort Rosecrans, Cal, to re-
port all the facts regarding the ar
rest of an alleged Japanese spy
who was sketching the Notifications
which do not exist at that place.
Admiral Evans, commanding the
fleet, was at the Navy De-
partment today consulting the Off
Gals regarding the condition of the
navy yard work on the vessels of his
feet. He is going to Lake Mohonk
for a weeks rest, after which he will
return to the fleet, which will be
assembled off the Chesapeake capes
about Aug. 25. The vessels will en-
gage in target practice until Sept. 9.
Admiral Brownson, Chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, in discussing
The charge that some of the battle
ships of the navy are defective, said
-oday:
"That there were defects in the |
Oregon class and the Kentucky and
The Kearsage is well known in fact,
.hese defects were discovered before
the completion of those ships; but the
wonder is that there were so few de-
'ects considering that they were the
first heavy battle-ships built in this
country. Compared with the battle
hips of other nations, designed and
built at the same time, the Oregon
lass was conspicuously superior. In
TACT, that class was referred to by
he leading British technical papers
1t the time as the peerless battle
hip and the interior arrangement
md other points were said to be of
special excellence. 1t is true that
heir armor was badly placed, but
hat arose from the addition to the
md stores and machinery not in
GUIDED in the original design. 1t is
ilso true that they lack balanced tur-
cts, but when they were built there
we're no such turrets in any navy.
Their eight-inch ammunition tubes
tlso were not sufficiently protected.
Gas to the criticisms directed at the
arge size of the ports in the turrets,
his has been corrected in later de-
igns by bringing the trunnions of
he guns nearer to the front of the
urret, so that battIeships of later
lesign are free from that defect. AS
o gun platforms, the main purpose
If the ship, the Oregon class has no
and even at this late date
hey would give a good account of
in action In fact, taking
into consideration, it is
,nly surprising that we built as good
hips at that time.
Il am of the opinion that If the