Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-11
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Orders were received by the foreign
naval commanders now here to be
ready to land marines and bluejack-
cts at q moments notice.
The Committee Of Union and Prog
ress accuse the Cabinet Ministers OF
cowardice while the army Is said to
be in the hands OF officers who only
walt an opportunity of overthrowing
the Sultan Muhammed as Abdul Ha-
mid was disposed.
Rioting and looting is proceeding
In Constantinople. the situation is des-
perate
The ulemas sent by the ,Sheik III
Islam to preach holy war among the
soldiers defending the last ramparts Of
Turkey in Europe have been received
without any great show of enthusiasm
as the lack Of q commissariat disgusts
the generals and soldiers.
A. Wendell Jackson, the United
States citizen who iMinced Charles
Birch Crisp to finance the Republi.
can governments orc china without the
guarantee demanded by the six Pow
ers group of bankers, arrived in New
York from London, yesterday.
He predicts q great awakening of
the Chinese trade, and believes the
way now open for great intercourse
OF commerce from China and the Pa
cific seaboard Of the United States
via Honolulu The key to the Orient
Among the thousands of cofnmuni.
cations and suggestions received By
President-elect woodrow Wilson since
last Tuesday are many having refer
ence TO future appointments and the
attitude of the coming administration
towards the Pacific Territories OF
Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. {
To all suggestions and advice the
President-elect has turned courteous
but automatically deaf ear. He has
determined to give himself and the
country rest from politics until the
time appears when he viii have to
face the problems Of misunderstanding
and prepare for actual work Of execn-
tive control following the inaugnra-
ton next March in Washington.
S.
William Jennings Bryan has arrived
in washington and he will spend all
next week comforting with political
leaders preparatory to the official
commencement of the coming Demo
cratic era. Colonel Bryan will visit
President-elect woodrow Wilson be-
fore going to his winter home in Flor.
Ida
The great fourteen-inch wire-wound
guns to guard Pearl Harbor, in Homo
lulu. in Manila and in the Panama
Canal zone are more than up to the
estimated war valuation OF the expert
ordanee constructors who have been
engaged for months in projecting the
first models.
The navy board plans to increase
the coal plant in Pearl Harbor to 200,.
006 tons capacity by increasing the
heighth OF the walls. Provision is also
made for an increase of the LIQUID
fuel capacity which is estimated in
the original plans at 900,e9e gallons
of gasoline.
The launching of the Iron Duke
from Portsmouth marks a new era in
British naval construction. The vessel
is the twenty-ninth British dread
nought to take the. water. Her dis
placement is 26,Oe0 tons, and her main
battery consists of ten 13.5-inch guns,
firing sheels of 400 pounds. or $50
pounds more than the projectiles fir
ed by former weapons OF this cali
her.
The. hull of the ship consists of
three separate skins so that even If
the outer ones should be pierced by
rocks or torpedoes, the speed of the
vessel would not be impaired. -,
President Taft probably will not be
able to play golf again for several
days. He PLAYED nine holes over the
Chevy Chase links Saturday, and this
morning woke up to find that he was
suffering again from slight attack of
the govt. ~ r. = 49, -
An incident which occurred while
King George of England was shooting
on the Hon. John Wards pre-
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