Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
A. D. McEVOY

day for the purpose of resting tele-
! graph cable on it. 1 Immediately in
! formed our minister and the steamer
Kenow was secured and an American
and Hawaiian officer were placed on
! board. If the British ship got there first
their flag was to be hauled down and
replaced by the Stars and Stripes, but if
the Kenow arrived first the Hawaiian
! flag was to be placed on the island. The
Kenow arrived first and the island be-
longs, to us today.
Plans of Japanese
"The Japanese counsel, Gen. Fugii,
informed me that they would have
| good fleet of warships in Honolulu,
! and Great Britain would have one in
! Squiamault, and his government would
| demand the franchise for all Japanese
subjects, and enforce their demands by
force Of arms. OF this I also informed
our government and through the ad.
vice of our minister and Admiral Wal.
ker, the Japanese demand was promptly
refused. Just at that time Japan very
Unexpectedly went to war with China,
/ and by this, war was averted between
the United States and Japan.
with the British fleet and money
against US, Fugii informed myself and
| Robert Wilcox that they had a strong
to Honolulu, when they discovered that
war with China was inevitable and the
same order which brought back the
| three Japanese warShipS from Honolulu
| intercepted the fleet on it's way to
Honolulu and they returned to the war
with China with little credit to Japan.
''The failure of the Royalists to re-
store the deposed queen and also the
/ failure of the Japanese in the franchise
matter resulted in the formulating of d
plan by the representatives of Japan
and Great Britain which was more
treacherous and underhanded than the
previous ones. The plan, of which 1
was informed by the British was that
the British minister had met our min
lister and admiral on board our war
ship Philadelphia and agreed to send
| our ship away with the British ship and
let the people of the islands settle their
own difficulties as best they could. This
would mean, if carried out, the hoist
ing of the Stars and Stripes which
Blaunt hauled down after the queen
was deposed But the plan, as related
to me by the British, was for the
| Champion to return on pretense of hav-
! ing fOrgitten an important document,
and our ship would, of course, keep on
her way to San Francisco.
Assault Plan Failed
Honolulu she was to give her men
! general shore liberty, all of them to
| carry revOlverS, and that they were to
| cooperate with the queens forces at
point near Diamond Head, and dress i'll
| citizens clothes and arm themselves
with the rifles which were cached by
the British ship while pretending to
have target practice off that place
several weeks previously.
| The British were to join the Royal
lists in an assault on the government
buildings, and, if successful, the de-
ception would never be discovered, but
if not successful in the overthrow Of
the Hawaiian governments then the
British minister was to give orders to
the British ship to clear for action, as
the subjects of her royal majesty were
being slaughtered, and they were 10
| lombard the government building, take
the place by conquest and restore the
queen, who was to abdicate in favor OF
Great Britain, with the understanding
OF a British prOtectorate.
"Of all this L informed our minister,
with the result that our ship remained
until the British minister, Woodhouse,
was recalled by his government be-
cause he failed in his mission, which
was the securing of the islands for
Great Britain. l reported a certain
matter which was a secret given to me
by the officers of the British warship
to our minister and the Hawaiian mar
snal to whom 1 made my regular re-
port. certain one Of his officers very
indiscreetly gave it to the Honolulu
Advertiser. and when I went on board
of the British warship and down into
the gunroOm the door was closed tightly
behind me, and there were the officers
of the ship with five marines with rifles
ready to shoot me as a spy. l simply
smiled when the charge was made, and
| was condemned to die.
Il had two good American guns in my
| coat pockets and made up my mind TO
kill all / could before my execution.
! But the chief gunner came to my rescue
when I charged an officer who had gone
| home to England with giving away tile
ships secrets. The chief gunner spoke
| up and said that he was positive that
] was innocent, as / had warned him
that this officer was giving away the
secrets to the Hawaiian government. 1
anticipated that some indiscreet person
in the marshars employ might give ME
away and took this means of protect
ing myself.
Detective Is Released
81 was released and treated as before
and made my regular visits aboard the
ship, getting good information for our
| government and that of Hawaii but
when martial law was declared | took
up arms against the British and ar
rested a great number of them. who