Show THERE APPEARS TO RE NO JAR minister Thurston and This Government Are Friendly Washington Nov 15Minister Thurston of Hawaii has not demanded de-manded his pas port His relations with this country are still to all appearances ap-pearances at leasto the most friendly friend-ly The fact that this J so after the conference he had with Gresham yes t terilay is considered significant that 4r I d J p the relations between the Hawaiian legation le-gation and the state department remain re-main undisturbed Tne Hawaiian government I go-vernment however will stand its vernment howeve wi stnd on is I rights a a independent sovereignty and its policy will be to regard as an i act of war any movement looking to i the restoration the queen A legation j tion does not remain in a country that has declared war against its government I govern-ment Its natural course would be to demand its passports and get without i the limits of the hostile country Minister Thurston indeed has no 1 official information that this country has declared war on his government Greshams published letter addressed I to the president contains much information I infor-mation it is true but under the punctilious punc-tilious requirements of diplomacy it I is not a sufficient basis for Minister Thurston to act upon because it ha II not been officially addressed to him I Is however a sufficient basis for him t make requisition on the secretary I secre-tary for information as to the United States governments intentions towards to-wards his government That was undoubtedly un-doubtedly the purpose of his visit to Gresham today This visit was satisfactory satis-factory as assuring the present friendly status of the department and the Hawaiian legation I i scarcely possible that orders can have been given to restore the queen by force while the department of state is still seeking to maintain friendly relations with here wit the legations |