The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-12
GETTING BIC GUNS
READY FOR HAWAII
WAR DEPARTMENT TO OBTAIN
FULL APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FORTIFICATloNs.

WASHINGTON, February 29.-The
War Department expects TO obtain
every dollar OF It's estimates for the
new Notifications and ornaments at
Manila, in Subig bay and Hawaii from
Congress without the usual horizontal
reductions as the result OF earnest eff
forts TO impress the Importance of the !
work at these places on the leaders in
the House and Senate
General Murray, chief of artillery,
has also given the reasons to members
of the Senate and House military COM
mittees why there should be no cut in |
the appropriations for other insuar |
possessions. He has gone so far as to |
say to the leaders that If reduction are
necessary there should be none in the
East. 1t is reasonably certain, too,
that there will be no reduction in any
of the amounts suggested for the Paci-
fic Coast.
The principal armament wanted for
Hawaii and Manila is fourteen-inch
guns. Six of these monsters are des-
tined for Manila and two for Hawaii
Ten-inch guns will be used at Subig
Bay, which is already protected by
twenty six-inch guns, and is consider
ed a very formidable station by Ad-
miral Dewey. The great steel dry-docls
Dewey is stationed at Subig Bay, and
according to all accounts Will be kept
there no matter how great may be the
fertilization of Manila Bay and islands
of the Corregidor group in Manila Bay.
This news from the War Department
is another definite indication that the
! United States regards it as of the
highest importance that there should
be no fear of attack on the Philippines
or Hawaii. The plans of the War De-
partment will not fail of success be-
cause there will be brought to bear
upon Congress all of the coast Sena-
| tors and Representatives VINO have
been urging the defense of the coast and
the East. Omcials do moot take any
stock in the idea that without a fleet
the Pacific coast can not defend itself.
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plague which devasted England dur
ing the Middle Ages and again during
the day of Defoe was introduced by
the black rat, which, in the last hun
: dred years, has been exterminated by
the, brown rat; but as the men of
} science ask, "How do we know that
the brown rat is any less dangerous
l to the human race than was his pre-
: decessor of fearful memory, the black
: rat?"
Further the scientists assert that q
brown rat, or at all events a very
! brownish looking rat, enjoys but i'll
repute in India, where he is popularity
, regarded, an opinion of the laity which
many medical men concur in as the
vehicle by means of which the slug
gish plague flea of the country is car
ried about so simple from one native
household to it's neighbor.
, These facts are generally accepted
by the scientific world in which nc
!. nature takers are tolerated. If your
r barn is not rat-ridden, according tC
the English scientists recently i'm
pregnated with the Danish theories
you had better burn it, after consul
: tation with your fire insurance com
! pany, of course. Otherwise your porl
= may give you trichinosis, or sudder
death via the rat flea may enter YOU
house in a number of hitherto I'm
known and unsupported ways, but al
: equally disagreeable.
T. CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND.
At the head of the AntiRat Leagu,
9 of Great Britain stands that eminen
scientist, Sir Lauder Brunton, an,
!. Lord Avebury, still better known t
q the American world as Sir John Lut
a book, the banker, philanthropist an,
:. popular writer on scientific subjects
2 Lord Avebury, who was only fey
a years ago promoted to a peerage, ha
\. always been a distinguished lover AM
Al student Of the animal and insec
worlds. Humanity abashed and ash
m AIMED has often hid it's diminishe'
q head when confronted by Sir John
n sympathetic revelations from the NOR
n. natural animal kingdoms.
. In preparation Of the great can
N paign which is sure to come the PAL
n ent league is Strengthening itself an
"a girding up it's loins, as 1t were, by tn
formation of provincial leagues an
+s branches in every country or shire @
q the great kingdom which 1t Is sough
"a shortly to unite upon the rat quei
20 ton.
w 1t is proposed that the leagu
II should build in every county and shir
- town a rat-proof house and barn t
~ serve as an object lesson and pract
cal illustration.
Those arbiters OF life and death VI
der the English system, the recognii
ly ed and authorized medical practitioI
IN ers of the communities In which the
g. dwell, are occupying an attitude {
70 sympathetic reserve toward the grea
ii crusade and its impressive leader
Indeed, since the verdict rendered
IT. few weeks ago, when the Lancet wa
is mulcted in heavy damages for d
Isl nOunCinp an unorfhodoY madica1 Dral