The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-12-14
Determination OF
Responsibility
Wanted By KuhiO
Delegate Denies Any Responsible
ltyeFor Observation-Disclosures and
Says He win Seek An lnyes-
tigation When In Washington

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Determination OF the responsibility
for the decentralization of the Hawaii.
an National Guard this year will be
demanded by Delegate Kalanianaole
when he returns TO Washington this
winter, for he intends asking for q
congressional investigation into the
reasons why the guard was not called
into active service. GA
The Delegate. very erphatieally As!
ssrtt! tkhE ~ toSi6 2bb6lutgiF lno part
in the campaign TO prevent the guard
from being called out, aud he was
greatly surprised when he learned that
the movement TO eall the guard had
been blocked. He states that as evi.
denee Of his own desire to have the
militia serve on active duty, he appear.
ed personally before the secretary Of
war and before Brig. Gen. William A.
Mann, chief Of the bureau Of militia
affairs, to favor the calling out of the
guard. 'a ~
over Delegates Head ...a u
He says he has had difficulty in as.
eertaining Just who really did block
the movement. At Washington he did not
ascertain the facts owing TO the pres
sure of direct war business in all de-
partments. He is certaiI that il was
oil ''done over his head" and be-
lieves that some one in Washington
was responsible to some extent. Wheth.
er this person - an agent of local
bodies, be does not yet know, he saws.
SO far as he can remember there was
no correspondence on the subject be-
tween himself, and the Governor! He
says he had letter and a eablegram
regarding the matter from the terri.
torial food commission. The cable.
gram requested him to take action to
cut down the strength of the guard,
because of agriculture and food pro.
duetion conditions. He conferred upon
this matter with BriGhdier General
Mann, immediately on receipt Of the
eablegram. The Delegate says he car
ried out the ipstructions Of the com.
mission but also continued TO carry on
his campaign to have the guard mobil.
lied. General Mann told him he could
see no reason why the guard strength
could not be cut down. Kuhio had
had no word at that time from the
Governor on this subject. The next
day the Delegate was informed by
General Mann that the guard strength
would really be reduced.
The Delegate now believes that the
guard may not be mobilized early in
1918, and If il should be. it will be only
for home defense, and not for service
abroad. s-.,. s... .. y =.
Castle Makes Denial u .
A. l.. Castle, to whom the Governor
has referred as one responsible for the
guard INERTIA and who, as an at.
torney for the food commission. was
responsible for letters and cablegrams
forwarded TO Washington. concerning
the guard and its strength reduction,
said yesterday that the food commits.
sion did not at any time take any ac.
tion adverse to the guard interests or
against what the Hawaiian Department
believed to be military policy.
'tIt is q fact" said Mr.. Castle, Hthat
on May 20 General, Mann eabled Gen.
eral johnson that the guard would not
be mobihzed. Since my letter to Dele.
gate Kuhio was dated May Is ii is ap.
parent that this letter could not have
reached Washington by May 90 and
therefore could have had no bearing
on the non.mobilization of the guard y