The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-30
GAMBLING AT CAMP
WAS NOT CONFINED
! ITO THE FILIPIN0S
Big Game, With Liquid Accom-.
paniments, Run BY officers
"a. At KaWaiIoa, Is Report
BLAME FOR TROUBLE
IN GUARD TO BE FIXED
Whole Matter Of Lack Of Disci-
pine and Falling Downof Com
missary win Be investigated

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u Not all the gambling carried on al
Camp Liliuokalani was Gone by the
Filipinos, nor was il confined to the
enlisted men, according TO the tales
now being told out Of school The bis
game, which is said to have run far
into the night most every night, with
liquid accomplishments, was on what
Was nieknamed at the camp oval
Street " This game Is said to have
been fast and heavy one, in which
three Of kind had the edge over any
two pairs. H. .a''
The whole matter of camp discipline
aud the falling down Of the commissary
department Of the Second Regiment l.
in for rigorous Investigation, accord
ing TO reports in guard circles yester
day. II is understood that Genera
johnson has called an officers meeting
at which there will be some very plaiI
speaking, with an effort to place the
blame for moving picture show riots
and food pilikias.
The feeding of the Kauai battalion
or the lack of such feeding which re
suited in the FilipinOs of the GardeI
( Island houting all attempts at disci
pline on Tuesday, came close to dupli
cotton yesterday when the men from
il<ohala boarded their boat for home
riyc minutes before the boat sailed
Captain Freeman of the Mama Kea
was attempting to find out from some
militia officer in authority whether II
had been arranged for the steamship
company to feed the men or whether
"a aarn ao.. -, N N a,- kal ,,,olo oAb
er arrangements. None appeared t.
know, the militia officer appealed &c
stating that he did not know what the
arrangements were. E'..t.
There was great deal Of street talk
Yesterday concerning the guard and
the failure it appears to be with it,
pfeponderance of Filipino enlistments
ti.was stated by one federal official
that an investigation was being made
into allegations that the Filipinos were
ordered to join the guard by the plan
tations for the express purpose of max
ing regiments that would not be called
out but which would supply the show
ing that would obviate the application
OF the draft in Hawaii. a..
Pinkham Is Blamed
Governor Pinkham has always in
sisted on the undivided credit for tn,
guard, y said prominent business man
yesterday, "He cannot now, in view
of all that he has laid himself about
what he has done for the raising
the regiments and in view of wha>
he has allowed others to say for him
and to him in the matter, escape thu
blame for the Filipino fiasco. 1t wa
his guard, pure and simple; now lie
him shoulder the responsibility for it,.
Pedro NJ. Esqueras, editor of thu
Filipino newspaper Ang Abyan, came
forward in defense Of the Filipino
guardsmen yesterday, stating that i.
was a shame to brand all the Filipinos
as riotous and insubordinate and JUST
Tying, in part, the rioting and mutiny
which did take place.
Filipinos Defended
frfhe men were not altogether II
blame, he says. Blame must be place.
upon those supposed to be charged
with providing Subsistence to the Kau
I'll guardsmen. From early morning
when they had breakfast, until the
time they broke from the ship, they
claim they had not been fed, nor did
there appear to be any provision. made
the prospect of further hunger, accord
ing to the Filipino editor, compelled
them to be insubordinate
The blame for the failure to providl
the eommissariat is to be probed ana
the responsibility placed. Had the Fill
pinos at KawailOa previously displaye,
. spirit TO recognize military law anC
regulations instead of utilizing brute
force to meet their demands, such al
the riot a week ago tonight, when they
tore down o motion picture tent and re
fused 20 be cowed for period by thu
guard, the hunger riot" of Tuesda,
would probably have brought the Fill
pinos sympathy. And in all, it ha
been taken as an Indication of the re
fusal of the Filipinos TO take ORDER
when they don't want TO, or to curl
their passions. =,
The Filipino editor said that tn,
length Of time they were kept ABOARD
the vessel and the sight of eatable
near by, and the continued absence o.
any government ratiOns, caused then
TO make The break for the shore. ~
Filipinos Not Only Disorderlies
He further says that the Filipino
we're not responsible for becoming mem
bers of the guard. They were appealed
TO. he sail, TO enter the guard service
and they responded readily. He ais
charges that all the lack of disciplin
at Kawailoa was not among the Fill
piDos.
General johnson, adjutant general o
the national guard, will call for specia
reports from officers TO determine tn
rasponsibilitY for the lack of foo,
among the Kauai Filipino guardsmen
He viii await this report before con
pertino upon the case. The general
at this time, will not discuss the rumOr
Of dissatisfaction among officers of tn
guard, or the rumors Of proposed resig
nations. II is likely he win await tn
result of the report of the Unite
states Army officers attached to tn
guprfl before making a statement
Major John w, Short IL in charge .
the nuartermaste' department, whicI
supplies the eatables, but he says b,
was at KaWniloa when the Kilauea in
,hent hgnpenPd 50 says he cannot b
blhmed for the lack Of foresight o
someone else, possibly the ,comPan!
commanders.