The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-14
FIRST REGIMENT TO
Be REORGAN|zED
Failure To Mobilize Has Not Dis
Outraged Guardsmen and Eff
cheney win Be improved

An important week of reorganization
lies before the first regiment Of the ma
tional guard, stationed at Honolulu.
Colonel William r. Riley, and the ad-
iutant generals Office for the past
mouth have consistently looked over
the heads of the Respondent and pessi-
mistic elements which believed that
the first regiment had been "killedn
by failure to mobilize and that the
heart had been taken out Of it.
It Is expected that reorganization
will fall this week with heavy hand
on the weakest portions of the regi-
ment, but II now seems certain that the
regiment had more resilipncy than was
expected and will not only maintain
its efficiency, but improve il. xii.
Orders are now being prepared for
the breaking up of Company G., as II
stands at present, and its officers, in.
eluding the company commander, Cap
tain Louis Kane, will be transferred
sitherZ 20 the unassigned list or the ma
tional guard reserve. The enlisted per-
sonnet, it is believed, will be transfer
red to Company l, which, under Cap
tain Ware, was one of the crack or
CARNATIONS of the regiment until the
exemption order reduced it to about
eleven men. s. 4
More Pep Needed r..
II is stated that the formation Of
the company at Aiea which, when it is
incorporated in the First Regiment,
will require the amalgamation Of two
of the present companies, was not al
together the reason for the Company
Z change, Increase of efficiency is
said 10 have been the aim and by the
same token several other companies
which have not been doing the beBt
hey could under the circumstances
may be incorporated with more alive
organizations and new blood gone
after ..
The formation of o battalion in the
outside districts of Oahu may be fol-
lowed by the elimination of the second
battalion in Honolulu, of which Com
pany G is part. y r1lr x
The inspection of the Aiea company
by Captain Lawrence C. Crawford,
army instructor,inspector of the ma
honal guard, has been completed and
the report forwarded to headquarters.
Charles N. Arnold, city and county
supervisor, a resident of Aiea, has re-
,eived his commission as captain in
the national guard and will be assign.
I'd to command it. t...t. ...
The formation of a Waialua com
pany, which was to have been. init
ated yesterday, was postponed until
next Sunday. 4. .r.a ~
Japanese Company 49, ~, q.
The work of activity creating the
Japanese company, ordered to be form
ID by the Governor last week, is ex
pected to commence this week, 1t ii
xnown that the adjutant general has
been waiting to receive a list of names
Vt registered japanese citizens Of mil
i.ary age from the registration board
but what procedure is to be adopted Il
lot known. ... ...-v .E,zsi.. If
The first battalion of the local regi
ment spent yesterday morning work
ing out field problems in Kakaako un
Ter the supervision of Captain Craw
cord, who spoke we'll of the handlin,
If the companies by their officers an(
If the general dispositions. +
Captain Crawford assumed a gener
Il situation with regular troops with
lrawn from the Island, hostile raid
er sighted off port and attempted t,
land q party east of Fort, Armstrong
The first battalion was to constitute
detachment to meet the landing part!
and drive them of, the presence o
hostile sympathizers.i an the city beinI
assumed to make necessary advanc
guards and other elements of secur
ity for the additional training of tn
men. Major Merle NJ, johnson was il
ommand of. the battalion.