The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-12-31

(From Sunday Advertiser)

(From Sunday Advertiser)
One lone official order concerning the
coming of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry
to Honolulu in January was received at
department headquarters yesterday
morning, the order being tucked away
in list of minor orders as if the trans
fer of an entire regiment to Oahu was
nothing more than mere incident in
army routine.
However, it was official, dated at d.
vision headquarters in San Francisco,
December IS, 1912, and reading as fol
lows:
"Pursuant to telegraphic instruc.
tions of the 18th instant from the war
department the following named en-
listed men, Hospital Corps, now at sta
ons indicated, will report to their re-
spective commanding officers for duty
with the Twenty.Fifth Infantry en-
route to Honolulu, and on arrival there
at they will be reported to the com.
manding general, department of Ha.
waii, for assignment to duty with the
Twenty.Fifth Infantry in that depart
ment Then follows a long list of
men for the detail.
"That's all right as far as it goes,
but it leaves them IN Honolulu, and It's
four miles to Fort Shafter and twen-
ty to Schofield Barracks" said Adiu-
tant-General Campbell on reading the
order.
The Army and Navy Journal of De-
cember Ii, contains the following para
graph:
"The Twenty Fifth O. s. Infantry,
now stationed at Fort Lawton and Fort
George Wright, Washington, has been
directed to leave for Hawaii on the
January transport. No organizations
have yet been selected for these posts,
but it is understood that Forts Wright
and Lawton will remain vacant for
only short time. On the same trans
port bound for Hawaiian stations with
the Twenty-Fifth will be the Tenth,
Sixty Eighth and Seventy Fifth Com
panies of Coast Artillery. The Twenty.
Fifth Infantry will be quartered in
tents until the barracks at Fort Scho-
field are completed.
100000 Men Proposed.
Concerning the proposed enlargement
of the army garrisons on Oahu and the
recommendations of various army
boards, the Register of the same date
contains the following:
"The war department has received
the confidential report of a board of
officers, consisting of Gen. NJ. M. Ma
comb, Lieut.-Col. John F. Morrison,
Twenty-First Infantry; Maj. George
Blakely, of the coast artillery, and
Capt. Edward S. Walton, of the infan.
try, who were convened to make rec
concentrations concerning the defense
o. the Hawaiian Islands. The result of
their deliberations emphasized the i'm
portance of the immediate completion
of that outpost, and congress at this
session will be urged to make provision
with view to establishing defensive
force of 10000 men. This has been
adopted as the revised approved plan
to take the place of any of several
propositions which have been under
consideration.
GONE estimate of the defense of the
Hawaiian outpost contemplated a force
of as much as 100000 men, which was
calculated as furnishing a sufficient
body to prevent the landing of an
enemy anywhere on the island. Anoth-
CT scheme took into consideration the
of the island, which would call for CO.,
el plan had been the location of the
defense halfway on the island.
"The board went into the subject
fully and has proposed defense which
shall be situated in the neighborhood
of Pearl Harbor and which is regarded
as adequate for the purpose. Such a
garrison would consist of six regiments
of infantry. a regiment of cavalry, a
regiment of field artillery. and a bat.
TALON of field artillery, besides the reg
ular conn" Mes of coast artillery, all
maintained mt full strength.
"An important aspect of the ease is
the raising of these regiments of the
outpost garrisons to fun strength, which
must bc done by drawing on the forces
nj home, not only for organizations, but
for men, leaving, ultimately, in the
/ United States sixteen regiments of in
fantry, eleven aud two.thirds regiments
of cavalry. three regiments of field ar
/ tillerY, IFS companies of coast artil-
I lery. aud two battalions of engineers.
/ II the Army is kept az the total
strength which IL Is today, II will mean
/ that g2l7 men, who will be necessary
/ 30 raise the foreign gnrris0ns 10 fnll
strength, viii have 20 he taken from
fhe regiments NJ homo, reducing the In
fantry and cayalrY .n tile country 10
about 1900 men"
aeagoing Tug Wanted
/ Brighton. o. A Weaver, Chief Of
fbe loasi Artillery rofps. In his annual
/ report says
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should soc ihp completion ~ iha fauih.
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