The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-30
GERMAN REFUGEE
|. SHIPS CANNOT GO
TOPEARL HARB0R
Naval Base Is Closed Port Says
Secretary Of Navy e IN
Daniels ~
HARB0R COMMISSIONERS ..
GET DECISION BY CABLE
Only Alternative To Relieve Con-
". w. gestiol Is To Send Yes
r.. sells Outside q - ri.

After a silence Of twenty-five days,
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan.
iels has replied to the request of the
board of harbor commissioners that
refugee German ships here be permitted
to go to Pearl Harbor W., .
lie has denied this request.
The following eablegram came yes.
terday afternoon from the secretary of
the navy: t,.l a"" tYs - .'-.s.
| pearl Harbor is a closed port, and
the department, whites apprcciating
your difficulties, docs not feel justified
IN authorizing a visit of the refugee
vessels to that harbor."
This Is Second Refusal IT. ,.'.
This is, in effect, the second denial,
for, when the ships arrived here al
most year ago, it was suggested that
they be put in Pearl Harbor, but the
board faced the necessity Of making
the request direct, as it did gtbis time,
without the advantage of recon.
incubation from Admiral Moore that it
10 granted.
| The cablogram, to which the reply
came yesterday, was sent july z. 1t
was decided upon after letter had
been received from Admiral Moore,
then commandant, that he could not
grant the permission, as Pearl HarbOr
was a closed port and no foreign YES
sci could be admitted without per
mission from the secretary of the navy
in each case. He suggested that the
board wire direct, but said that, II it
were preferred, that he would transmit
the request. The board adopted the
former plan.
Decision Is Final
AS the decision of the secretary of
the navy appears final, since the Scr"e-
tary said he appreciated the Difficult.
ties faced by the harbor commissioners
here, the one step that remains is to
send the ships outside. They have
faced that for a month
Not all will go at once, and when
the first will go depends entirely upon
conditions. By careful planning and
shifting, Harbor Master William r.
Foster has succeeded in getting docks
for ships that have come, although there
has been delay in some cases., Present
examples are the inability or the naval
auxiliary Nanshan to get a berth in
side, which will force her to lie OFF
port until she is ready to sail for Sa-
moa with the Fortune; the change of
the interned collier LOcksun to berth
alongside the Prinz Waklemar at Pier
7; the taking of the Locksun 5 berth
at Navy No. 2 by the Yucatan; and
the entrance of the Japanese steamer
Tenpaisan Maru this mOrning-en-
trance prevented yesterday by the
lack of a dock; aud the always present
example of the German steamer lIol-
satia off port, at an expense of five
times what it would cost her to be
inside, because there is no berth for
her. Again, the collier Nervous, at Pier
| 7, will have to move to Quarantine to
| day for the steamer China to dock at
Pier 7.
First to go, when the time comes,
will be the steamers Pommcrn and
Prinz WaldHmar, now at the eva side
of Pier I, the best wharf of all. They
have been prepared for IA month to
sail on twelve hours notice, for, Il
month ago, 1t appeared that ships due
would force the Germans ont. but, al
though the harbor was crowded, Cap
tain Foster managed to let them re.
main inside.
There are sight refugee Germans
here; the schooner lIcrmeS in navy
row; the Pommcrn and Prinz Wade
mar; the SetUs, GOuvCrneur Jaeschke,
Staatssekretar Kraetke, the LOOng
Moon and the Holsatia The gunbOat
Geier and the Locksun are interned,
and may not depart. The others are
not held by any authority.
L A.