Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-06
Collector of Port and Army Act
on AdyiceS From Washing
ton; Franklin in Control


The situation on the waterfront /.
this;
All the refugee German merchant
vessels, seven steamers and one mo
tor schooner, were under military con
troll, with armed guards on every boat
Civilian guards are no. longer aboard
the Pommern and setos.
Crews Of the eight vessels, totaiine
Sc men, were In detention at the u
s. immigration station. The number
taken into custody last night on orders
received BY Chief Inspector Richard
/. Halsey was ~, but five, four Fill
plno sailors and one Chinese cook
were released az $50 this morning.
One company Of regulars 10 guard.
ing the immigration station and is
CHARTERED there.
The military guard on the vacated
German vessels was reduced this
morning and the dock patrol taken off.
No PREPARATIONS were made this
morning 20 move the German vessels
from their present wharves. The U.
s. tuo-of.war Navajo left az o'clock
this morning on her. usual trip to
Pearl Harbor, towing naval barges
fuied with rock for concrete construc-
ton work there which 10 being rushed.
Acting under orders received direct
from Washington at practically the
same time that Associated Press des-
patches reached Honolulu telling OF
the house vote to pass the war reso-
luton. the army and navy, cooperat-
ing with Collector OF the Port Malcolm
A. Franklin and immigration Inspect.
OF Richard Halsey. took prompt action
last night, removed the crews Of all
the refugee German merchant YES
sells from the boats, placed them in
custody OF the immigration officials
and put military guards on each of the
eight vessels.
Today the crews from the vessels
are m detention at the immigration
station, while armed soldiers are
guarding each boat, guards being
placed at The bow and stern OF every
vessel. and relieved every hour or
tho.
Officials Notified Directly
IN addition to the orders received
by Pearl Harbor and the Hawaiian.
department, separate instructions
reached Collector Franklin and I'M
spectof Halsey simultaneously The
Immigration inspector received a
cable at 1910 last night signeE by
Secretary Of Labor Wilson, directing
him TO take the crews of all German
vessels In this port into custody. With
the assistance CT the military forces
this was done az once.
slxty-siE Men Are Held -
The total number of officers and
sailors rounded up by the soldiers last
night from the eight refugee German
merchantmen was IL. This morning
at $3.50 u. S. immigration Inspector
Richard Z. Halsey freed five OF them
because they were not Germans Four
were Filipino helpers from the Prinz
Waldemar, which had three, the Gou-
verneur Jaeschke having the other.
Filipino: and the fifth man was a Chi
nese cook from the Setos.
Guarding che Immigration station,
this morning was a company Of regu-'
lars, SIS men. under command Of Capt.
william e. Hunt Of the Ind infantry,
Sort Shaffer. The company. pitched
eL,AIto CI TIC AtUe-On edONhUn ~
o'clock this morning and is CHARTERED
there.
Final pisposition uudetermined
U. s. Immigration Inspector Halseyl
said At 3 O'Clock This morning he did
not know what disposition would be
made Of tle German sailors and Of.
ficers IN detention 1t the station. It
is thought likely that after President
wilson siens the formal declaration OF
war with Germany the men viii be In
termed at the internnent camps az
Fort shafteS Schofitld Barracks and
Other military posts on Oahu, where
the crews Ct tie interned German gun.
boat Geier and her navSl collier Lock |
sun ser, inief1led Febrnary 4, the day
altar Ghc (rnIt1H States severed diplo-
matte relations MIN Germany.
Hsrbor Board Jurisdiction Ends
caalfi6an Charies r. Forbes Of the
board Of aarbor commissioners made
q tour of the Waterfront by automobile |
az 5 6'clotk th;s :acrning. He said he |
tho ieht L likely the German vessels
WIN Be LACED Elsewhere than they
nov are. but where he did not know. |
Fhn i,1fIr.II1||b AZ the harb0r- hoard