Show BlIR FEEE1N A HONOll Most Threatening State of Affairs Reported HARBOR IS FILLED WITH FIGHTING SHIPS American Sailors Are Persecuted By the Police Object of the Authorities Cannot Be FathomedMore British and Japanese Jap-anese War Vessels Expected to Arrive Daily Annexation of Solomon Sol-omon Islands by England Causes Great Excitement I New York Aug 2A dispatch to the Herald from Vancouver says that the steamer Miowera from Honolulu brings the following Hawaiian advices ad-vices Honolulu harbor is dotted with British Japanese and United States war vessels and more British and Japanese vessels are expected daily In semiofficial quarters everything is reported re-ported quiet but the impressIon among citizens is that the condition of affairs I is very threatening and a popular outbreak out-break may occur at any time when international interference from ships in the harbor would occasion a complication complica-tion The stream of Asiatic laborers is i still pouring in each ship load causing a fresh outbreak of feeling among the I different factions on the islands I An immediate cause of alarm is the fact that the United States blue jackets are bitterly hostile to the Hawaiian police rule who exercise almost military ruleBritish and Japanese sailors are not molested but American blue jackets are constantly arrested as deserters wlthnnt fn I nnnnp 1 in Arrr conceivable way J The object of the authorities in this persecution cannot at present be fathomed fath-omed The blue jackets are writing numerous letters td the press protesting protest-Ing against their treatment Heav rewards are offered to the police po-lice for arresting United States naval deserters whIch has caused wholesale qrrests of men of the American fleet I News of the annexation of several of the Solomon Islands by Great Brit ain has been received with excitement and again started a report that advices ad-vices have been received from England that the United States will not be allowed al-lowed to annex Hawaii as Great Brit ain wants the Islands herself Americans Ameri-cans insist on vigilance committees being be-ing appointed to look after American interests in view of the persecution of American blue jackets by the police I They ask that the police system be I done away with as a menace to the country I |