Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-11
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Lieutenant Metcalf. in command OF
the first division OF the Pacific torpe-
do fiotilla, stationed at San Diego.
Cal. received orders yesterday to pro-
coed with his aotilla to the Gulf of
California.
The first division OF the Pacific tor
pedo fiotilla Is composed Of the fol-
lowing:
Destroyer Whipple, fiagboat OF the
division, in command Of Lieut. Martin
X Metcalf.
Destroyer Hopkins, in command Of
Lieut. Earl r. Ship.
Destroyer Perry, IN command Of
Lieut. Abner NJ. Steckel
DESTROYER Truxton, in command Of
Lieut. Robert F. Cross.
BY decision OF the hoard OF arbi.
TRAITORS. which has been considering
1.-THE demands of the railroad employ.
lees Of practically all Of the great rail
roads east OF the Missouri river, the
companies are ordered to grant an
advance in pay averaging u per cent
iover the present scale. The board OF
,arbitrators was appointed nearly q
year ago and the award was an
nounced in New York City yesterday,
The honorary degree of doctor Of
laws was conferred upon Colonel The
|odore Roosevelt BY the University Of
Buenos Ayres at elaborate exercises
held in honor of the noted visitor
yesterday afternoon
Former Foreign Minister Zeballos
eulogized Roosevelt on his Panama
policy while President Of the United
States.
Zeballos maintained that the Unit
ed States must dominate In control
Iof the canal and the Caribbean sea-,
or otherwise the republics in those
sections would always be in a posi-
.tion to invite Intervention and posi-.
bic acknowledgment.
Premier Asquith devoted good
portion OF his address at the Lord
Mayors banquet in London last night
to 4 discussion Of the situation IN
Mexico. He declared that, despite
the reports to the contrary, Great
Britain has never considered the ad-
visibility of political Intervention in
the affairs Of that country.
He was followed by Rt. Honorable
Winston Churchill first lord Of the
admiralty. who stated that the naval
program of Great Britain for the com
ing year Is greater than last This
means that the naval holiday pro-
gram discussed informally by the!
Powers will probably not be carried
out.
An address by the Japanese ambas-
sador was stepped with expressions
Of goodwill for Great Britain. The
japanese ambassador denied the
truth OF fun0rs that the Anglo Japa-
nese alliance had been abrogated.
Commander Sumner E. Kittle of
the American gunboat Wheeling re-
ceiyed orders from Washington late
yesterday to proceed under full speed
to Tuxpan, seaport on the Vera
Cruz coast, about IT'S miles northeast
Of the city OF Vera Cruz, in response
to an urgent request for aid from the
American consular agent stationed at;
Tuxpan. The town has population
of about fye thousand with an Amer
lean colony estimated at about three.
hundred men, women and children.
John e. Hoyle, warden Of San.
Quentin state prison, rendered his
resignation to the board of prison
directors last night and it was &C.
cepted. The action came following.
the reprimanding of Hoyle's yard
captain byfa prison director The an
nouncement of Hoyle,s intention to
resign was made q week ago.
Refugees reaching San Diego, CAL,
from the west coast Of Mexico, yes
terday afternoon, report a battle be-,
tween the forces of Huerta and Con
stitutionalists near Mazatlan, 10 days
ago The fighting lasted over a peri
cd of three days and resulted in the.
deaths of 400 Federals. The loss to.
the Constitutionalist forces is not
known.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
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