The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-17
WE MAY NOT .
COME BACK, ;" i.
SAYS ADMIRAL
(Continuet rom Page one,l

lar remarks made by officers and men
of the cruisers and destroyers before
they left. The fleet does not know Ii
it MIL return and the principal imme-
diate idea is for the fleet to be in read
indss in strategic position as regards
Hawaii, the Philippines, the Atlantic
fleet and Japan.
The Saturn in the event Of the fleet
being ordered from Samoa elsewhere
than to return to Honolulu, will be
dispatched to join or intercept the
| fleet Collier Iris at Cavite is in readi-
ness also and the Justin may be re-
turned to Honolulu from San Fran
cisco, loaded, very soon, preceding the
cruiser Colorado which is expected
here in couple Of weeks, Golfers
Nanshan and Pompey are in Philip
pine waters. Collier Ajax, at last re-
ports, was in Samoa.
The American Atlantic fleet of six
teen battleships and a number of aux
iliaries leaves Albany, Australia, to-
day, bound for Manila where the war
supposed to leave Manila on October
10 and to arrive at Yokohama on DC
tober II, when the Pacific fleet, &C.
cording to present schedule, is suppos-
ed to be back here. But the Pacific
fleet, as the follow-up of the Atlantic
fleet, is in position to reinforce or act
as reserve to the Atlantic fleet at a
short interval if orders from Samoa are
such as to render the move advisa-
BILE
In the meanwhile there are the Co.
! dorado, Charleston, Milwaukee and st.
Louis on the American coast.
The Pacific is chess boarded very
prettily and in the event of trouble
the American ships of war are effect
ing an interesting bottle-up in the Far
East.
Not that there is any prospect of
trouble, but the United States Navy
is in position to strike the first blow,
if desirable, rather than suffer the first
stroke as was the case with Russia
in the last big Far Eastern misunder-
standing.
Those recognizing the significance OF
the great drill of ships going on in
this ocean, declare that it is a SUI.
preme move of reinforced diplomacy. "
, that the unfavorable financial condi-
ton of a possible though perhaps not
probable foe renders the American
display of force an argument for the
favorable settlement of pending in
ternational questions.
In regard to fdnd forces in Hawaii
the recent report of the possible send
ing to Oahu an army of twenty thou
sand men may be the forecast of al
immediate installment, and the arri
val here of a transport about Octobe
10, few days before the scheduled
approach to Japan of the Atlantic flee
|, and about the time Of the proposed
t, return to Honolulu of the Pacific fleet
may also mean the arrival here of thu
first detachment of armed land forces
which will in a reasonable time swel
: to the thousands referred to.
Manchurian affairs are said TO figure
largely in the present show of nava
force not only on the part OF the Anne
ricans in the Pacific but OF the par
of the British in European waters
the British watching Russia whil
America is alert in the matter of an!
possible unfriendy move toward tn
Philippines or Hawaii
There are nearly ninety vessels o
the U. S. Navy in the Pacific toda,
and about half are dependable fighter
-battleships, armored and protecte,
\ cruisers, torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers, while the rest ar
scouts, gunboats, supplyships, tenders
golfers, tugs etc.