The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-10

The kasato Maru, which sprang into
worldwide notoriety the middle of
February by being suspected of being
in the secret service of the japanese
government, stationed on the west coast
of South America to "pipe off" the
wireless messages that might pass be-
tween the vessels of Admiral Evans
feet, arrived in this port yesterday aft
ernoon. The officers of the vessel did
not know of the notoriety which their
vessel had been given until they arriv-
ed here. They were told of it, how
ever, before they got into the harbor,
the news being carried to them by ev-
eryone coming near the vessel, begin
ming with the pilot and the quarantine
service men, the customs officers, and
the immigration service men, the ships
agents, the newspaper men and every
one else they talked with.
They were amused that their vessel
should have acquired such worldwide
notoriety. They denied positively the
inference that had given the notoriety.
They denied the possibility of the in
ference having any foundation in fact.
They had neither wireless appliances,
nor wireless operators, they said-they
wished they had, they would have
found them useful at times. The TWEEN
ty-four days it had taken them to go
from Iquique to Tocopilla, which was
the basis for the assumption that they
had been engaged in listening by wire
less to the messages passing among
the American feet, they accounted for
by the primitive methods of loading,
the heavy seas that stopped work at
times, the certainty of two and the
probability of more holidays each week,
and the general prevalence of "ma-
nana'' in South America.
Captain Mort gave his itinerary after
leaving Honolulu last November as
lOllONs. IIOIH mere the Ndodlo NChU
to Salina Cruz, Mexico; thence to Pa
tia in the northern part of Peru; thence
down the coast of Peru, touching at
Eten; Salaverry; CallaO; Tambo De
Mora; Mollendo; then at africa, Chile,
and then at Iquique where the loading
of nitrates began. The next port south
was Calata Buena, and the next TOGO
pilla. Then the vessel went to Ilo in
the southern part of Peru to fumigate,
and then to Cerro Azul, about hun
bred miles south of Callao. This is
the sugar port of Peru and there 600
tons of sugar for japan was loaded.
From Cerro Azul the vessel went to
Callao to clear, and sailed from there
February 16. From there to this port
the distance is 5000 miles, which the
Kasato Maru made in a little less
than % days, the regular sailing time
of the vessel.
eve sailed from Callao for this port
February IT," said Captain Morn.
''The fleet was off Valparaiso Febru-
airy Is, that was more than fifteen hun
dred miles away. The feet did not
get into the Pacific until after the
first of February, so that a part of
the twenty-four days we were under
SUSPICION. the fleet was on the opposite
side of the continent from us. At the
nitrate ports from Iquique to TOGO
pilla we have to moor out from the
shore. The moorings have to be made
and take time. The nitrates
are delivered to the vessel on lighters.
The process is very slow. There is no
activity as there is here. Then there
are days when there is a very heavy
swell and no loading can go on. If
there were severe storms there it would