The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-03
Turns Down Flat Recommends
lions Of General Strong and
Appeals Of General Johnson
That Militia Be Called To colors
REASONS GIVEN INDICATE
GRAVE MISUNDERSTANDING
Hints In Official Correspondence
Show That Washington Author.
tiles We're Misinformed Re-
garding the Local Sentiment

T%HE re com m endations Of
y Brig Gen. Frederick S.
Strong, commander of the Hawai-
ian department, that the National
Guard of Hawaii be modified for
training have been disapproved
by the war department, the en-
dorsement to that effect having
been received in yesterdays mail.
The reasons for this disapprov-
al, as stated by the department.,
were similar to those announced
to the adjutant general of the ma
tional guard several weeks ago by
BrigadiersGeneral Mann, chief Of
the bureau of militia affairs. 4
In this letter, General Mann
stated to General Johnson:
That decision was rendered by
the secretary Of war after careful
consideration Of the several Inn
portant features involved in the
question how to treat the Hawai-
ian National Guard in its relations
to vital economic affairs in that
Territory, and not until state
ments or recommendations of the
Delegate from Hawaii and the
Territorial Food Commission, and
others, had been presented and
considered" .5 ,rs
The public announcement yesterday
the first elearreut statement on any sort
to be issued regarding the prospect of
the National Guard Of Hawaii-qaye
rise to innumerabie prophecies that this
finished the guard
Guard Is Still Fighting ...u
1t was taken for granted that this
annOuncemeRt would take the remain,
der of the spirit out Of. the guard and
that designations and applications for
discharge would do the rest. ~
This attitude Is not shared by the
guard headquarters. -,
alphabetically worded cables have
been rushed to Delegate Kuhio asking
him to reconsider his recomnie ndat iohs'
These cables 60 from the Delegate g
closest political friends in Hawaii, from
t he adjutant general of the guard and
from the food commissions, whose orig.
lnal recommendation helped III keepinp
the guard in the afmory. A
THE national guard stated Gen.
eral Johnson yesterday afternoon, t'will
soon be as strong as ever, within the
limits of the new organization. This
word from the war department Is def
mite, but IL is not final. The letter 10
General Strong is dated some time
back. Conditions change from day to
day, and the new recommendation NAV
yet have their effect. The letters 1
have received from General Mann. are
such that II is plain that the war de-
partment wishes to encourage the guard
as much as possible. The department q
desire to have in these Islands n strong
guard ready for service has not
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Gables To Kuhio
The adjutant general cabled to Dele
gate kuhio last Friday, assuring him
that such information as he had re-.
eeiyed previously, that led him 10 he.
Iieve that the Territory as whole did
not wish to see the guard in the field,
was a mistake, The actual state of af I,
fairs was put up to him, ana there il
not the slightest doubt in the minds of
local officials that the Delegate will re.
verse his recommendation to the war
n, ~ -.
Bae king up the adjutant general g en- .
BILE, the strongest political supporters of
Delegate kuhio in the Islands, men
whose names are invariably connected
with the Delegates in politics, cabled
him that they had read the adiutant a
cable and endorsed it heartily.
On top of this, the food commission
'abled its opinion favoring mobilization
rs emphatically as possible. This cable
also went back Friday and said, in
effect: aa - 'I.'''
Hawaii is willing to discharge her
whole obligation 10 the nation, both
from the military and economic stand.
DOint. The food commission does not
oppose the mobilization of the guard as