The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-16
BRITISH Asedsof Arms 1inlelH g.,
Warning Toa the Unifed States
IEEYF1KVI5 GA ItEVgIF ItJIWTF. Vs
Student BOT National Defensea nd Preparedness
Points Out Where AlliessAre Weak. |:


mer Is .oyersf The Invasion Of Germany
by,yths Allies is, very far of, indeed
First the Allies must have the arms for
that Ihsaaiohg asiTSnrsIf,. 'h
THAT, Germaay should wait for sis
months before attempting the sab
inafihs blockade sf1 England is very
strange ifiadurine those sii months
lshgfaiiii hsd pbeSitl constantly receiving
machines from this country. ~.
5loctsae Was Deferred - -!
The tctuai landing DC .afns and ann,
munitibn in England would have been
met by atFleast an attempted blockade
.0ng before If such arms sand ahmuni
si6n'slad really been insexistenees K
2iiThe' blockade was begun only now
beeanse the FIRST big shipments Of ann
manition had Sc0mmenEed to 70. to Eng,
land Previous TO this time there was'
really nothing much to attempt to
blockade for. Germany starving Is no
worse or than England without arms,
p Were the cables from Europe not
Wholly in the hands of English cen.
sorss We would hare heard long ago
from Sweden how Destitute the RUS
siansg are OF Is military supplies We.
woufd hive heard from Ttal} how the
Serbians are almost Mt the end, of their
resources, not tbecausai of any poverty
bf courage and fghtfng sliill, but be
cause sOf twaptaof afms to fght with.
Il, The Allies are desperate for arms.
German, hemmed. in on all sides, has
IN equal chance of winning because.
Tor Hionths to come lit will boz she I'M
stead OF the Allies who can put tllg1
q "a
into the field. " X ~ g NJ Ha lar
Y6t every one o. the Allies, even
Serbia, even Belgium, had, when this,
war began, an equipment that we,
Americans thohghtswas enorniobs Any
Que OF the Allies could have. over
powered ms before we could arm, our
selves If they could have reached ouI
EoastE Even JialRiaip & ouId have done,
this ifi she had had q heet. .s. i 4,
Small Powers Stronger w. III
oday wheIl our state department Is
ntteDip ting to preserve our rights by.
tArdy activities we are less armed and
tess esto arm than Holland, with Eve,
millioR, people, on, Sweden, with thu
Fame population, or Norway, with only
TWO ,and q half million. II
With their backs TO the wall thess;
iittle natiolis could Eight. For they
are yarmehI We, With danger or dis.
grace facing us, haye not EVEN the
ehoiee Of fghting or not, We could not
tgtlt. For we have nothing TO fght
With lli 49,, .at 5.aT XXI
B, Tue huge size. Of modern armies
make their equipment asyastly digfer
ent matter than ever before arming d
0ation for defense has been. The, vaa
riety aRdlsliuieney lof todayls military
makes its need the greater
for amy sort OF war. 1t also makes its
Manufacture more difficult and longer
a process than ever before, requiring
more machinery andsmote time An every
ifstail lahdparti6ulat. " Rsttr
l.sWe thaye. not even the factories and
thsvnaehines IN factories to supply our
selves with defensive arms in our tinrS'
of'need. Just as the savagcs, with bowp
Hnd arrows, we're helpless before oui
'Rncestors, armed with nluskets; so we
are today helpless before an Invasion
'of any foreign force that lands, we'll
armed, on our shores. sr&., ~