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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Berkeley Potato King and Baron
ShibuzalUa Are Decorated

the grand harvest festival, which takes
place tomorrow.
Ceremony Purely Religious
It is called the "Chinkon-sai Its
rpurport is prayer for the, longevity of
the emperor, the empress and the crown
prince, and the publication of their
body aud soul.a The ceremony was
held at. the Yuki.den and suki-den
hallSenewly Grected In the compound
of the palace, 1t was purely n relis
ious function and was officiated by the
court ritualists and attended by chief
officials of the coronation committee.
The emperor and crown prince did not
participate.
The halls had been previously puri-
fed. After the spirits of several gods
had been called to the sanctuary, the
musicians played sacred Shinto music
on harp and flute with an occasional nc
compartment of sacred bells. Next a
sword, a bow, an arrow, bell, CO.
coon, q roll of raw silk cloth and a roll
of hemp cloth and then some food offer
ings were presented before the altar,
the musicians all the while playing
Shinto music.
Ritual Is Impressive
The chief ritualist then, ascending
the stand in front of the altar, read a
Shinto prayer for the perpetuity of the
imperial reign, the longevity of the EN-
perOr, the empress and the crown prince
and the prosperity of the imperial
house. Presently were brought into the
hall strip of the cloth used in the en-
pPrOr 8 robe and tablet representing
his mejosty. These were placed in q
sacred case. The ritualists clapped their
hands eight times and the curtains
around the stand were dropped. Then
the ritualists performed the ceremony
of making knots with threads, each
making ten knots. One of them struck
the sacred case ten times with a sword,
and, taking out the tablet, put it back
in the box in which it had been brought
in. The curtains around the stand were
then removed and a ritualist, taking
ont the imperial cloth from the box,
shook it before the sacred presence of
the gods ten times, and then returned
it to its box. The imperial cloth and
the tablet were then removed. The
cloth and tablets of the empress and
crown prince were given the same relig,
iOus treatment. #
subsequently, and finally brief eere.
mOny was performed for the happy de-
parture of the, spirits of the gods.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
DEATH ENTERS FAMILY
OF SECRETARY NJ 'ADOO
Son-In-LaW Passes Out At Cab
met Officers Residence

WASHINGTON, November 12,-~
Charles Martin Taber, of Los Angeles,
son n law of Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo, died at the residence of Sec
rotary McAdoo last night of pneumonia,
after Il short illness, Mrs. Taber, who
had been been unable to come to him
from Los Angeles because Of the illness
of their baby son from diptheria, is
now speeding across the continent, leav
ing her baby when notified by telegraph
that her husband was dying. The baby
is left in charge Of trained nurses du.
ring the absence of the mother.
President Wilson yesterday visited
the MrAdoo home to express his sym
pathy for the bereaved household
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12

Especial Cable to Hawaii Shinpo.)
" YOTO, November ~. - Count
N okuma. prime minister Of Japan,
was elevated to the marquisate
today by Emperor Yoshihito in com,
memoration of his coronation, and a
number of other prominent japanese
were given additional bonors. u .
. George oshiiiha, who lives in Berke.
ley, California, and who is known on
'thcS Paeifc Goast as GeaIso ShinIa,s the
"potato king" was given the Fifth
Order of Merit. - II
Baron Shibuzawa, who is now in the
United States in the interest of friend
ship between Japan and the United
States, has been given the Order of
the Grand Rising Sun. G. Okuda, may
or OF Toxic, has received tho same deco
ration.
X. Mishima, T. Furukawa and X. Ok
wa, have been made barons.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
EXECUTION
. STIRRED BRITAIN

How England has been stirred by tho
news of the execution of Nurse Edith
Cavcl is told in special despatch to
the New York Tribune of October 23,
from I.ondon, the Tribune S correspond
ent SaNIhg:
"lf anything were needed to spur
British manhood at this crisis in the
nation $ affairs Germany has furnished
it bv the staying of Miss Cavell. AS
to day : Tribune editorial, which is
quoted freely here, points out, her
courage and heroism have set an eX
ample which win live forever, and the
brutality mcted out to her has started
n wave Of indignation and desire for
revenge which is sweeping over the
country like forest fire. No German
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
WAY Being PAVED
FOR CONSUMPTION
Unless Young Men Come For
ward And Enlist Britain May
Compel Service
tAssociatsd Press by Federal wirels,s1

NNssociaVed frosB Dy Federal WtrelosB,D
LONDON, November l2.-Lord Der
by, who is in charge Of the recruiting
bureau, issued a statement yesterday
which has lead to rumors that the gov
eminent is about to put into effect
conscription, a plan which has been op.
posed vigorously on all sides upon mon.
tion.
Lord Derby declared the response to
the appeals for recruits is not salts.
factory and that unless young men
come forward willingly in sufficient
numbers by November 80, the govern
ment will put in force severe measures.
The tenor of the statement indicates
that these "sevCre measures" are now
being considered by the cabinet.
Lord Derby declares the question of
obtaining recruits is one in which the
men affected have no voice. The right
of the government to demand men for
duty at the front, be says, is a matter
for tribunals and such will be the case,
he hints, unless recruiting is stimulat-
ed.
Arthur Lynch, the Nationalist from
Galway, Ireland, made a severe attach
on the government in the house of com
mons yesterday, declaring the manner
in which the war has been conducted
for Great Britain has been far from
praisewOrthy.
British generals have shown them.
selves to be incompetent, he said, and
there has been a general lack Of di.
rection in leadership. The country
faces disaster, Mr.. Lynch declared, un
less there is change in the situation
soon.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
HEAVY fighting
ON EVERY Front
Russians And French Claim Sue
cesses And Vienna Says ItaI-
ians Are .ParaBzed
Won HINpENBURG RETREATS
Austrian Report Declares Entire
Isonzo Front Of Latin Has
Been Crushed
ION HsNDENBURG RETREATS
tAssocistsd Press by Federal wirsles,

(Assoctated Press by Federal Wireless.l y y
LONDON, November ~. Heavy
fighting is going on along the East,
West and AustroItalian fronts. Sue
cesses are reported by tho Russians and
the French, but the Anstfians Claim to
have paralyzed the Italians.
Following up the capture Of 4 number
of villages in the Riga district, the
Russians are pressing Forward vigor.
ously against the Teutons Won Hin.
denburg's line had been pierced, accord
ing to reports, and the Germans are re.
treating. Many Of them have been
drowned in the marshes. -
French Take Trench
An official statement received here
from the Paris war Office says the
French have taken a trench from tbs
Germans at Les Eparges through the
successful explosion of mahy mines.
Other successes also are claimed with
the aid Of mines. E ..
The French are bOmoarding the enc.
my vigorously with thcif heavy guns in
the districts about Loos, Lafosse, Coloo
Calonne and Southern.
Italians Are Paralyzed
An official statement from the war
office at Vienna says the Italians have
renewed the attack on Goritzia preced .
ing it with a terrific artillery fire, but
have been repulsed. ~
"We repulsed attacks along the en-
tire Isonzo front yesterday" the state
ment says from PLAYA TO Deiseibusi.
The fighting was of most sanguinary
character in some places hand to han /
engagements prevailing. 7 The enemy
everywhere has been paralyzed and its
offensive decisively checked -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Death Sentence OF Three Women "A
Brussels Co,nn1,tted By Kaiser

crime against humanity, not even the
sinking of the Lusitania, nor the Yep,
pelin raids on noncombatants, powerful
as they were, have been half so ef-
feetive as a recruiting argument as the
Cavcll case.
'Tho staying of this one lone, de-
fencelcss woman is something every one
can understand and realize. The Ma
tiOnal Liberal Club is initiating a
movement for the setting aside Of n
day to be known as 'Cavell Day. on
which the nation collectively would
pay homage to her memory, and al
ready the fund to erect monument
to her memory is growing by leaps and
bounds. Years from now the woman
who went to her death saying Il am
happy to die for my country will be
remembered as England's greatest re.
cruiting agent.
"When her name is mentioned at
tho great Trafalgar Square meetings
Won can fairly feel the tension, the
stiffening of the crowd, and invariably
men in mufti mount the plinth to make
public acknowledgement that they are
willing and anxious to avenge the
crime in the only way England has at
her disposal
"A memorial service for Miss Cavell
is to b" held next Friday in st. Paul 5
Cathedral. 1t was meant at first to
be an unobtrusive tribute, but is rap,
idly developing national proportions
Premier Asquith and other members
of the Cabinet have announced, Their
intention of being present, and public
hOdies ( and the leading hospitals
throughout the country are sending
delegations -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
(Associated Press BY Federal wifeissu.,

Id EkLIN, November l2-The youth
n full Countess de Belleville, con
- victed of assisting British and
Belgian prisoners to escape from the
German war hospitals in Belgium across
the line into Holland, after trial at
court martial, will not be executed as
was Edith Cavell, the English nurse,
convicted of the same offense.
Yesterday, according to a statement
published in the Koelnische Volke
Zcitung, the X Iiser agreed to the re-
quest presented by Pope Benedict that
the life of the young countess and of
the two other women convicted with
her be spared The death sentences
have, accordingly, been commuted to
imprisonment for life.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
T>EUToNS CONTINUE
i WINNING VICTORIES

PARIS, November, l2.-An official
Serbian statement received here last
night says that the enemy has
crossed tho Morava valley west of
Kralievo and south Of Diunis and Les
kovac, but that enemy attacks have
been repulsed at Ordelitza, Katchanik
and Gorges.
The repulses claimed by the Serbs
are believed to be due to th6ir retreat
into their main mountain defonscs and
are considered Indicative of quick
halt of the Teutonic drive.
A Havas agency despatch from Ath
ems says the Serbian government has
been moved to KTutchevO.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
FESTIVAL OF SACRED
i RICE TAKES PLACE
By Associated Press J

KIOTO, November l5.-The Dai iOsai
Festival, or Grand Thanksgiving FEES
tival, the ceremony of offering sacrcl
rice to the imperial ancestors and the
gods and gOddCsSes of heaven and
earth, began today at the imperial pal.
ace. This ceremony is one of the three
great rites Of the coronation and is of
very ancient origin.
When NiniginO mikotO, the grandson
of the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omi-
kami, founder Of the japanese imprr rial
dynasty, descended from the heav, nly
domain, as it is additionally toll, to
Mount TakachihO, in Kyushu, and O.
tablishcd imperial headquarters there,
he sOWcd the seeds of rice plants AMI
presented the first crop to the sun god
dess before himself tasting the food
This was the very beginning of the
Dni ioSai Festival.
Rice constitutes the most important
daily food of the Japanese people, and
the land was, in the NEUROLOGICAL per
iOd, called the Land of Sacred Rice
Since that time the ceremony is OBJ
served as an essential function by
every ruler who succeeds to the throne
The rite was ordained by an imperial
edict issued by Emperor Mntsuhito in
1871, three years after his late ma
jesty's succession.
Emperor Central idea
The central idea is that the new en-
peror, invested with the suzerainty Of
the Land of the Sacred Rice, offers to
the imperial ancestors and the gods and
goddesses of heaven and earth the first
crop of the first harvest in his reign. It
is, therefore, observed as a state cere.
mony and not as a court ceremony.
Related to it is a ceremony of minor
importance, which is annually held in
the imperial court on November % and
simultaneously at the grand shrinrs at
lse. 1t is called the harvest festival.
As the rice on which sixty millions Of
the subjects of the imperial house sus.
tain their lives had been granted by
the imperial ancestor, as related above,
every sovereign Of the land expresses
his thanks for the bencvolence Of the
imperial ancestor in behalf of his mil
lions of subjects.
To pray for the plentitude Of harvest
the emperor holds ceremony on Fcbru-
AIRY II every year before the imperial
sanctuary and the grand ancestral
shripes, b2seeChing an abundance dur
ing the coming harvest The ceremony
and the harvest festival are widely oh
served in every Shinto shrine through
the length and breadth of the empire
on the same dav, which is preserved aS
national holiday.
Today $ ceremony was preparatory to
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
V|LL|STA TROOPS
DESERVING CHIEF
Carranza Agents At Douglas
Claim 'Pancho' Is Losing
100 Soldiers Daily
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wirslsus3


DOUGLAS, November l2.--One hun
dred Villistas are deserting the rebel
chief daily and coming over to the Car.
ranzistas, according to statements made
here yesterday by Mexican officials.
The claim was made in connection
with a statement that six Carranza
agents had been executed within the
Villa lines during the battle of Aqua
Prieta. This statement obtains partial
confirmation, for Americans at the Gus
toms house are said to have witnessed
two of the executions. ,.-sr.......
1t is believed there are many Carran-
"a agents within the Villa ranks under
the guise Of Villa soldiers, and that
they are inducing the Villistas to de-
sert. ft" @-
1t was learned yesterday that Gen.
eral Carranza has relieved General Obre.
gOn of the task of moving against Villa
in an effort to exteTminate him. General
Gales, commander of the Aqua Prieta
garrison, it is said, will be expected
to drive General Villa out of the terri.
tory he possesses in the northwest.
The campaign will be begun at once,
and if the Villistas are not subGued
General Obregon with reinforcements
will take command of the CarTanza
army in Sonora,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
SO Says Geneva Despatch To
London, And II True, Balkan
Foe Faces An invasion Which
viii Affect The Serbs Seriously
AUSTR0-G GERMANS AGAIN
CROSS MoRAyA VALLEY
Win Victories At Two Points, But
Enemy Hurls Them Back Else
where And Definite Check To
Their Drive Is Soon Likely
tA..oeLa.sd rrs.. y rsasral wlr,ls...l }

- (ABsociated Press By Federal wireless.)
II oND0N, November IA big
Russian army has, gone up the
Danube River through Rumania
without interference from the Ruman
ian government and has landed near
Silistria, an important town in Bulga.
ria on the Bulgar- -Rumanian border, ac
cording to Geneva dispatches to the
Daily Express. The dispatches add that
the Russians have landed much artil
lery.
Receipt of this news recalls a recent
report that the Russians had effected @
landing in Bulgaria near Varna, Bull
garia's principal port on the Black
Sea, and that the Russians would at
tempt to advance in an effort to link
forces with their Allies in the south
of Serbia, ttas cutting of receipt of
supplies by Constantinople, or despatch
from the Turk capital Of the copper SO
badly needed by the TeutoHs.
ekeptical over nepcrt s1sts ,c.s
Nothing having been heard since Of
the Russians at Yafna, the reported
landing near Silistria was received with
some skepticism. if true, however the
Bulgarians win find themselves in peril
Of an invasion which will seriously af-
feet their campaign against Serbia, and
probably be compelled to withdraw
troops from that theater Of the war.
II true also, the dispatches are sig
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Of GREECE
HAS PLAYED LAST CARD
IA.soeiated Press bx redsrnI Wiralaua \

NNe''-SNA-SSe .
LONDON, November 12.--Despair.
ing of obtaining support for the Skou-
loudis ministry, which is committed to
the course of neutrality he is insisting
upon, King Constantine Of Greece has
issued decree dissOlving the cham
ber of deputies and an election has
been called for December Is, accord
ing to a Reuter- s despatch from Ath
ems.
The outcome of this election will be
watched with great interest, for in dis
solving the chamber it is believed the
king is playing his last card.
If the people refuse on December Is
to elect n chamber committed to neu-
trality, and instead elect one which in
dOrses the policies of former Premier
Nenezelos, it is thought the king will
not be able to keep his country from
joining the Allies much longer.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
F-CLASS SUBMARINES
ARE IN HEAVY SEAS
Naval Tug IrOquois Is Losing
Control of Its Tow

SAN FRANCISCO, November l2.-
The FcIass submarines and their con
voying naval escorts are meeting with
severe weather and having a hard time
of it, according to wirelessed reports to
the commandant of the Mare Island
navy yard yesterday. Captain Kit
telle : report is that the IrOquois is un-
longer, her fuel being nearly exhausted
burklng into the heavy seas that are
running, while the Maryland and the
other vessels are holding down their
speed to that of the tug.
On receipt of this report, the cruiser
Chattanooga was despatched to relieve
the IroquoiS.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
BOMB CAUSED FIRE
ABOARD STEAMSHIP
Captain Of Beaohed italian YES
sci Holds Teutons Responsible
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wireless.

AAshoclatod frehb Dy federA WlreleBsl
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, November
12-The captain of the Italian steamer
Livietta, which, caught afresoff Sabine
Bar, Tuesday, en- route to Genoa with
a cargo of oil, has arrived here, hav-
ing beached his ship.
He declares he is positive an in,
cendiary bomb was the cause of the
fire and is positive 1t was placed
aboard here by an agent of the Teu,
tonic Allies.
The captain reports that the fire in
the Livietta was easily extinguished
forward, but has not yet been con.
trolled aft, Accordingly the ship was
run ashore sixty,fve miles east of Sa
bine Bar, in which vicinity the fire
started.
All of the crew were taken off by
American tank steamer Fulfstream.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Association In San Francisco
Looks With Distavor On Plan
For ContinentalAr Army, Believing
It win Conflict With Militia
RESOLUTION IS REFUSED
ON TECHNICAL GROUNDS
Author Seeking Endorsement Of
Administration Declared Not a
Delegate, But When Legal
Iy Offered, II Is Sidetraoked
tAssOciatod Press BY Federal wirelsss.)

(Associated Press BY Federal wireless.D p.
GAN FRANCISCO, November
~ IL. - The first important
blow at President Wilson's pre-
paredness policy was struck here
yesterday when the delegates Of
the National Guard Association
of the United States, in conyen-
ton, refused to endorse the adj
ministratiOn plan as ANNOUNCED by
Secretary OF War Garrison.
The particular point objected
to by the national guard repre-
sentatives is the suggestion of a
continental army" of 100000
men, the organization of which
would, in the opinion Of many of
the speakers, conflict with the
regularly organized state militia.
The author of the resolution
that the convention endorse the
continental afmy plan was
Gen. Henry Hamilton of New
York, whose advocacy of the reso-
luton led to the claim that he
was not properly a delegate to
the convention. . .. -.
After the debate, a resolution
properly introduced was refused
sanction, but was referred to the
Legislative committee Of the asso-
citation. ~
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
GREAT NAVAL BATTLE
NAY HAVE OCCURRED
CAs.oeisted Press BY Federal wirsIsss.l

COPENHAGEN, November liter
rife cannonading was heard last We'd
nosday off Febmatn Bell, at the en- D.,
trance to the Febmarn Sound, east of
the entrance to the Kiel Canal.
1t is believed that the British feet
was engaged in an attack on the Ger
man feet.
The firing heard at Copenhagen lasted
tw,pty minutes. It's violence caused
the doors and windows at Rockey Har,
bor, near Febmarn, to be blown open
The houses vibrated as if in an earth
quake. The weather was thick and it
it was impossible to observe anything
at sea.
Febman Sound is less than a quarter
of mile wide and thirty seven miles
cast of the entrance to Kiel Canal.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
PRESIDENT WILL APPEAL
FOR N0NPARTISAN SUPPORT

WASHINGTON, November
ll.-President Wilson proposes
to appeal to the Republican mem
bers of congress as well as to the
Democrats in securing support
for his military defense program
and to overcome Bryan's opposi-
tion. emf
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Yoshihito Eleudtes His
Premier To Marq,tisate

n CUNT 0KUMA Premier of Japan, Whom Emperor Yoshi-
- hto Has Elevated Marquisat In Honor His Coronation
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-12
Liues of French Countess
and T1vo Others Spared

DITH CAVELL English Nurse Whose Execution BY Ger
II mans In Belgium Has Enraged People of British Nation
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-05-26
Of
MRS. NORRIS
HERE TO-DAY
A WOMAN WHOSE LIFE WAS RE-
PLETE WITH USEFUL ACTIVITY
AND WHOSE DAYS WE'RE FILL.
ED WITH RIGHTEOUS DEEDS.

At ten minutes before 200 O'Clock
this afternoon Mrs. E. ID. Norris pass
ed away at her home in this city al
902 Second Avenue N w. She has
dren except a son who resides in ore
gon, were with her when the enc
came. Funeral services will be held
at the home tomorrow afternoon al
400 o'clock conducted by Rev. l.. NJ
Butler of the Broadway NJ. +. church
ald Rev. o. A. Duncan, who is here
conducting a meeting on the Y NJ. c.
A. grounds. Mrs. Norris was a mem
Der OF the Presbyterian church and
was also a member of the Home Mis-
siOnary Society of that church. She
was born in the year 1850 at Macon
H., and moved to Kansas City at the
age of 7,years. From there she moved
to Texas, and on the 4th of July, 1872
was married to +. D. Norris at Bon
ham, Texas. The family moved from
there to Vernon, Texas, and from
there to Cloud Chief, Okla, and in
1895 the family moved to Ardmore.
Children who survive her, are,
w. B. Norris of Oregon, Mrs. Nettie
Davenport of Streator, Ills, Mrs. For
rie Rutherford of Kansas City, Mo-
Mrs. Lottie Richards of this city, and
George Norris, also of this city.
Mr.. Norris died in 1910 and the re-
mains rest in Rose Hill cemetery. De
ceased is also survived by two sis
ters, Mrs. J. d. Palmer Of Acme, Tex,
and Mrs. Maud Hatfell of Chickasha.
and two brothers, William Black OF
Elk City and Chas. Black of Dallas.
Mrs. Norris was one of the best wom-
en- who ever resided in this city, or
in any other. Besides rearing her
own children, she reared or partly
reared nine orphan children. 1t is said
of her that no nan who ever called
at her door for a bite to eat was ever
turned away hungry. Her years were
filed with active days and she leaves
a record for useful living that every
child and every friend she has is proud
Of. During her illness her room was
kept a-bloom withf resh flowers, and
she was given every attention that
could have possibly been bestowed up
on her.