The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-17
List Includes Whites, Hawaiians,
Japanese and Chinese, Max
ing Camp Cosmopolitan
NATIONAL GUARD IS
STRONGLY REPRESENTED
Forty Applicants Were Not Sc
lected ~ Fortunate Ones IN
clude All Lines Of Business

One hundred representative men,
from all islands, all races and all occu
pations were selected by the army au-
thorities for the officers training camp
at schofeld Barracks, which opens An.
gust 81, the list of-names being an
nounced yesterday. There were about
forty unlucky candidates.
The list includes white Americans,
Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian citi-
zens. Residents Of all four counties
are Included and there are eight ser.
geants Of the regular army in the list.
oahu, inclusive of both Honolulu
residents and residents Of the outside
districts, is represented by sixty eight
names, while from Hawaii there are six,
Maui seventeen and Kauai four.
Seventeen Guardsmen Va /. a.
The. influence Of the national guard is
indicated by the fact that in the Ho.
nolulu list are seventeen guardsmen or
cx.guardsmen. Many officers Of out
side regiments, including Col j.. d..
Eastoh Of the Second Hawaiian Infan.
try, are also present in the list. 1t is
stated that very few guardsmen who
applied for the camp were turned down.
Practically the entire assistant staff
of the experimental station of the Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters Association
will be in the camp, this institution be-
ing represented by four assistant agri.
culturists, one assistant chemist and
one assistant entomologist, or six, in
all. f'-
Practically every important business
house of Honolulu win have repre-.
sentative in the camp, some more than
one, and others again with three or four
apiece. The Advertiser is represented
by three candidates for commission and
the Star, Bulletin by one, in addition to
3 several others who have. gone back 70
the Coast to enlist. ~ - ..'
Two or three TEACHERS of Mills Schools
are present, this being the only educa-
tional institution represented.
Officers Of the local regiment of the
guard who will attend the camp are:
Capt. William II. Hampton, First
Lieut.. Robert II. White, machine gun
company; Second Lieut.. w. l.. War.
rem, Supply Company; Lieut.. Lewis
Abshire, c. A. c.; Capt. Henry p.
O'Sullivan, Company a, First Regi.
mentj Capt. George X. harrison, G., A.
c.; First Lieut.. Herbert Il. Westcott,
adjutant, First Battalion, First Regi.
nent; and First Lieut.. Robert ID.
King, adjutant, Second Battalion,
First Regiment. r....".;.p. ~ =.
OF these, Captain Hampton has al
ready resigned to 60 to the camp
Some of the others will ask for fur,
Tough to attend the camp and still
others win be transferred to the ma.
tiOnal guard reserve. Under recent
rulings the officers will not have ia
, resign their guard commissions to at
tend the camp unless they wish, but
must do so of eonrse before they are
commissioned in the national army.
Camp International
Anthony Y. Seto Chinese attorney
at-law, represents his race, the Jap
nnese are represented by Kiniche Sa
kai, guardsman of the Big Island, and
the Hawaiians by John III. Waiwaiole
also of the guard. ~. ..... 49,
Several of the men in addition tC
the eight sergeants Of regulars have
had military experience outside of the
. guard, but military experience was not
considered to greater extent than
other qualifications, it being taken fol
granted that all were to go through
the same course, and all would possess
the same technical knowledge after i'll
completion.
The men will report for duty at thu
barracks near the First Infantry can
Torment, Schofeld Barracks, on tn,
morning of the twenty seventh of thin
month, but many of the men have al
ready visited their future school ant
many others will be there ahead OF
time ready for business. The course
follows that prescribed for all train
ing schools, and will be under com
mand of Captain Hunt assisted by
Captain Schneider. The course viii
last for three months, at the end Of
which time it is expected that forty
Ave of the candidates will be at ono,
commissioned in active service an(
the rest, minus those failing to com
Plete the course, win be, commissioned
Ia the reserve. -, 49,, ''
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