Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-10
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In 1896 jrecast was made her
in Hona Il the next war for TIL
linked would be with Ger
many. H.. ia IT,.
CaIler md by the recent sever
ing OF dif1o,datic relations between
: the United States and Germany and
the imminence Of actual war is fore
east made by Gen. Arthur Macarthur
more than IL years ago that the next
war in which the United States would
become involved would be with Ger
many. The verification of his fore
cast now appears very close though
IL viii be brought about, II come i
does, through circumstances different
in part from those which Gen. Mac
Arthur foresag. 49,. +. mr..
Many HonolulanS remember the I'm:
cident--ncw with some amusement
though at the time il was local sen,
sation an. created some comment on
the mainland IN those days Homo
lulu was much smaller community
than now and muel, less used TO mill.
tary preparation and discussion.
Gen, aiacArthur's remarks were
. LICOiNAtCfi 6Ifu 1tdu tlO IluIDCuldIC
bearing nor application on any mill
tary situation. They were. in fact,
much along the line OF military text.
books and military men understood
them at once. However. the incident
made a town sensation for a day or
so, but when II was discovered that
the general was talking in an AGA
demic sense the sensation blew over.
IL was also soon noted that while
Germany was referred TO, Gen. Mac
Arthur spoke merely of the economic
situation which, as students OF history
and affairs agreed, was making 1t
necessary for Germany to expand as
a world-power.
II was on December 10. 1903, that
Honolulu was startled by published
story Of a conversation between Gen.
Arthur Macarthur, Col ]. w. Jones,
commanding, and Col. J. Ii. Soper, adj
iutant general. NJ G.. H., in which II
was purported that Gen. Macarthur
was quoted verbatim from steno-
graphic notes. Quite as much as
founded at the statements attributed
to him relative to breaking with
Germany were the people OF the
United States. II is true that the
giving Of the conversation to the press
was an error but the sensation was
NOT The less but rather the greater in
consequence
On the morning of December 10.
1909. there was published an article to
the effect that correspondence of fed
erRl and territorial military authorities
had been. submitted to Governor Car
ter and tfat this Included a summary
of the vieRssof Gen. Macarthur taken
geographically BY Col jones' at
conference held in the Young hotel
on November ~. Macarthur at that
time giving his views OF the need Of
q strong national guard for Hawaii
and that Daniel Logan had been az
forded by the governor every oppor-
tunity to use the correspondence and
to make q copy in the executive Of
flee. The balance Of the article was
the purported statement Of Gen. Mac
Arthur. duly quoted, and in part as
follows:
THE general In the course Of his
remarks, to show the Importance of
having strong and efficient National
Guard in this territory, stated in part
as follows:
That the Pacific win be the theater
ct future commercial and military
struggles between nations, and these
ISLANDS viii be the center of all such
contests for supremacy
THAT history shows us that time
has shifted the theater Of such opera.
tons from the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic, where We have seen with the
last few months the Monroe doctrine