Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII.

United States Prepared to Checkmate Any Move by Japan. Uncle Same does not intend to be caught napping in Hawaii. Notwithstanding the denials of Japanese officials, the administration is suspicious that the wily Japs meditate some sort of a coup. There is a feeling in Washington that the Japs deny too vigorously and protest too much. At any rate, orders were sent to the gunboat Wheeling, at Mare Island, to proceed without delay to Honolulu. The Yorktown is already on her way to the Hawaiian capital. It was originally intended that the cruiser Philadelphia should return to the United States very soon, but now the understanding is that the Philadelphia will be kept at Honolulu till the Japanese cruiser Naniwa leaves that port for Japan, as it is reported she is about to do. The Japanese may not be meditating action; but the administration thinks it wise to be on the safe side.