The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-13
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Washington Rumor Says That
Another Field Artillery Organ
izatiOn VIII Soon Be Here to
Cover Exposed Shore Rsnicia
Arsenal Plant May Also Be
Transferred to Oahu to Make
Garrison sef-supporting.
(From "Wednesday Advertiser.)


(From Wednesday Advertiser.)
A regiment Of field artillery, accord
ing to report from Washington yes.
terday. is soon to he ordered to Iia-
wall for station on windward Oahu,
as a defense for that now unprotected
portion Of the island of Oahu.
just what additional regiment may
be assigned to this new station has
not been announced, nor have the
plans been completed for the transfer
Of such an organization, but reports in.
dictate that the war department con.
templates the placing of mobile guns
on that side of the pail until the plans
for the erection Of redoubts are carried
out. tt et
At department. headquarters yester-
day IL was stated that no intimation
of the purpose to send additional field
artillery to Oahu had been received
The Advertiser report, comes from an
apparently reliable source, however.
With good roads running along the
entire coast line Of Windward Oahu,
from Waimanalo TO Haleiwa, field ar
tillery regiment win prove power
full weapon of defense.
Another Brigade.
That the assigning of an additional
brigade Of infantry to Hawaii from
the Mexican border forces win be car.
ried out when the situation there
General Carter, U. s. A., the new com.
b. nj - A. 4
partment, who will arrive here tomor
row. General Carter expects to com,
mand force of 10000 men by the
middle Of 1918, about which time he
retires from active service. ~
General Carter, who has always been
cayalryman, up TO the time he be
came a general officer, is an authority
on cavalry tactics, and is the author Of
''Bridles and Saddles, ia work adopt
ed officially by the war department. fol
the army.
More Building Planned.
Cantonments for the new infantry
brigade will probably be erected a
Fort Shafter and at Schoheld Bar
racks.
That general supply depot will b,
established here for the quartermaste
department is also a well defined ru
NOR which came from Washington.
"A rumor is also current that genera
arsenal work will be undertaken in. fh
tire at the Philadelphia base and tina
tho Benecia arsenal manufacturing
equipment may be transferred to In
wall, so that the Hawaiian division will
be independent and may rely upon il
own industrial plant for war material
particularly in case of war, when tn
Hawaiian Islands may BIO eonsidere
remote from other sources Of supply.
.. General Carter Interviewed.
The San Francisco Chronicle, speak
ing Of the doubling of the Oahu garfi
son and the arrival on the Coast of tn
new commander Of the Hawaiian dc
partment, says;
f"That the Army forces in Hawai-
are to, be increased from 5000 men 4
$4,000 or 10000 as soon as the troop
can be transferred from the Unite,
States was disclosed in statements b,
Major General William II. Carter il
San Francisco last night.
General Carter is to sail for Homo
lulu ON the Army transport Thomas d
Thursday to assume command of tn
division of Hawaii. With him win 4,
about 1000 men to augment the presen
garrison on the. Island Of Oahu. Tn
remainder of the projected increas
will be transferred as soon as the,
can be spared from the Texas border
be said
General Carter pointed out that h
was not specially instructed by tn
-, "a. ~. NVau In, IIa
wall. On the contrary, most of hi
data had been gathered from hearing
before the congressional committee o.
military affairs. His departure for hi
new post has been accomplished will
such forced dispatch that he had no
had an opportunity to ascertain JUS
what the details of the program are.
Expects Important Things. d
"'I am hurrying out TO Honolulu
said General Carter, to take comman
Of what is now the Department of Ha
wall Ii is the first time that Ma
ior General has been assigned to tn
Hawaiian post. / will be eligible 70
retirement in November, 1915, but be
fore then il is expected that vital,
important things will be done in tn
development OF the defenses of tn
Islands. l,#J
,s"'We now have our Army recruit
ed up to- the full strength allowed b
law, and as soon as the neeessar
troops may be spared from Texas it
planned to increase the Hawaiia
Z. forces up TO possibly $4,000 men. Al
other additional brigade win be ser
out. ,
"The selection of Major Generi
. Carter TO command the Hawalia
forces during the period in which tn
increase is to be effected Is taken ,
being Of high significance in itsel
General Carter made the first mobil
cation Of the Second Division of u
Army (the Texas division), which
pronounced by military experts II