The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-13
FATE OF NATION I
HANGSDY THREAD
Grave-Faeed SOIpns Cloak All
Their Movements With Most
Somber Mystery
Harbor Commissioners Also Move
About Weighed Down With
FatefuI Secrets
Forbes and Silva Not Yet De-
cided Whether To Have
War Or Not

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Behind closed and locked doors, and
with the lately fashionable
air Of grave mystery and, as they
hoped, impenetrable secrecy, the mem
Ders Of the military committee Of the
house Of Representatives and Of the
board Of hArbor commissioners met In
last night and exchanged
condolences and discussed the German
merchant ships, why they are allowed
10 remain in the harbor of Honolulu
and why the harbor commission stub
bornly refuses to take them outside
the harbor as public opinion demands
shall be done. .-
The military committee Of the house;
under the leadership. Of the Hilo states
man, diplomat and courageous hero,
Eugene do Silva, communicated 70 the
harbor board the resolution introduced
last week by Representative Keleko-
lilo, demanding that within forty eight
hours the harbor board turn over to
the house all documents and communi-
cations, and the minutes of the har-
board, relating to the German ships.
The Sh-h-h-h One .',Ta
According to Charles R. Forbes,
chairman Of the harbor board, this re-
quest was complied with. He said that
the committee then requested that it
be furnished with copies of the docu-
ments. '.
As to the contents of the documents,
Forbes said that they had all been
made public by The Advertiser--with
the exception Of one. .
What was that onef" he was asked.
"Ah, that's where the sh-h-h-h-h-h h
comes in" replied Forbes.
Grave Responsibility
After the meeting, Representative
Silva sat at his desk in the legislative
chamber, entirely surrounded by mys-
terry and deep, dark, impenetrable
gloom. The weight of national and
affairs rested upon his
shoulders. The fate of two continents
hung upon his 5word--and he was not
the man to give the word. One sylla-
BILE from his poftent-laden lips and the
dogs Of war might be loosed and the
nation hurled in shrieking horror into
the bloody maelstrom Of strife. .gf
Representative Silva was fully con
scious to his power to involve two
great nations in horrid confict-nor did
he hesitate to inform all who would lis
ten Of the dread burden Of secrets that
scared lines upon his thoughtful brow.
Rushing in where angels might well
fear to tread, a mere newspaper man,
representing nobody but the people,
corning the secret conference.
Too Much wikiwiki - H..
.' owe held one" he admitted, "but
this is not. the time to tell what we
did. The newspapers are causing us
lots of trouble. They are trying to
make. us 60 too fast. There are things
we cannot talk about. To do SO might
be fraught with grayest consequences
If it hadn' T been for the newspapers
telling things, we should have got fur,
Their. The papers are splitting things
for us. They re trying TO rush us
without knowing what they re talking
about. .., .E..',.
awe are in constant communication
with the Authorities over there ''-he
waved his hand mysteriously in the
general direction of San Francisco
Washington, Berlin and all points east
-"and we know what Is going on
You fellows don't know what We
know
"'What do you knowf" he was ask
ed.
Some Day All VIII Be Clear
"I'ye told you I can Il tell you" re
piled the Hilo statesman. "I don ,
see WIN YOU fellows always want t.
know things before we re ready to tel
you. Some day this will all come GU
and you II know all about t.p
"Ts the committee going to max,
report to the housed Silva was ask
ed. .4.'a,t i."H..
"Certainly not--not for the present
anyway. Perhaps in twenty,four hour
we may do something. It all depends.
And Silva relapsed into gloom, mys
terv and silence. stu
But Silva's determination TO muz7l
the entire committee and pile secrec
upon mystery is not going to worl
worth a German pfennig, if Repre-
sentative Bernard Kalekolio has any
thing to say about it--aud he has
lot in his SYSTEM that he intends t
say. r-.., -.. .....
As Man To Man 49,.
Yesterday afternoon Kelekolio an
Silva were sitting at their respectiv
desks, which are near together, an
KelekoliO made a remark about tn
German ships and asked Silva when tn
| military committee was going to TepoI
upon his resolution demanding TO kno,
why the harbor board refused to r,
move them from the harbor.
Silva turned with military and di.
nifed severity upon his irrepressibl
colleague. ."
"You ought to have more sense,
he said, ethan to introduce such re
olniion--trying to stir up trouble whe
the two nations are on the verge {
war. There are grave secrets that yo
don 7 know anything about"
"That's what I'm trying to find OF
about, " interrupted Kelekolio.
1--WE are in constant touch with Il
Authorities, - continued silva, disr
garding the interruption, "and "
know what We are doing. We wei
dowa to Pearl HaTbor and saw CAPITA