Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-20


seldom sees. Fifth avenue was one
tremendous lane OF colors. with the
red sun OF Japan glowing everywhere
through its white field.
Coming over from Philadelphia last
night. my train was held up for an
hour In the darkness just outside the
Quaker City. We could not learn eN'
actly the season, but were told II had
something TO do with a train directly
thead. That troop train seemed to be
in almost entire darkness. II was go
ing-somewhere: filled with troops,
ready for some sort of action, but
where OF what one could not learn.
This is Just an illustration OF our war
preparations.
Another illustration came this week
in the widespread raids by the depart.
ment OF justice on alien enemies and
suspected traitors. Many Of these are
known German sympathizers and sup
posedly guilty of more heinous acts
than expression of sympathy. Others
are /. w. w. conspirators who have
been fighting the draft and otherwise
causing trouble. Hundreds were ar
and jails we're filled to overlooking,
Pro-Germans Look Out! a-
Around this city and elsewhere in
the East the department Of justice
seems to be acting with calm, direct,
smashing effectiveness which ought to
strike terror to the plotters. ] gather
from newspapers and from talking
with men who have seen the opera
ton OF this drag-net that the Germans
who will not obey the letter and spirit
of President wilson's proclamation
are given short shrift. There is little
tolerance of traitorous acts here. The
department OF Justices attorneys and
agents are fearless and effective. They
are not afraid of hurting any plotter's
feelings. According to the Washing
ton dispatches, il is the policy Of the
government to watch the alien enc
mics and the professional hyphenates
closely. to get the names of large
groups OF them, and then to make
wholesale raids. The raids this week
FIJI New York drove to the authorities
crowd OF alien hyphenates who have
been too busy heretofore to observe
the orders given when We went to
war. Now they are realizing that
Uncle Sam means business and that
III they want to keep out Of Jail they
must ''obey the law and keep their
mouths shut.
1t appears, too, that they are not al
lowed all kinds Of liberty after they
are placed under arrest. They are
hurried away to internment camps
without delay.
Secret Service Large
The extent OF the u. S. secret ser.
vice must be large, though the idea
has preyailed--and perhaps with the
willingness of Washington--that our
secret service force is small and In
adequate. But the revelations OF Ger.
man plotting in Argentine, Sweden.
Mexico and elsewhere uncovered by
Uncle Sans agents, now backed up by
the Wholesale arrests In the United
States, shows that our secret service
is doing a remarkable work. Very
largely this is the result. 1t appears,
of our volunteer agencies, of which
there are innumerable organizations
defense leagues, protective associa-
tons and the like. They are mostly
civilian organizations, made up of
tested, intelligent. wideawake Amer
lean men and women. and it is I'M
questionable that they are furnishing
the government with much valuable
data.
Lord Northcliffe's articles, already
referred to, declare that Uncle Sam is
building up war machine unequalled
in the worlds history. He says that
from the taid British point OF view the
process is sometimes bewildering:
that no progress seems to be made
for months at a time, and then that