As the greater part of the fleet was getting ready to leave Honolulu, last week, for its cruise to Australia, Major General John L. Hines, Chief of Staff of the Army, was back at Washington. He had been in Hawaii acting (with Admiral Coontz) as one of the two chief umpires of the war game in which the fleet attempted to take the Islands from the garrison (TIME, May 4, 11).
Umpire Hines rendered the first authentic account to reach the public of the outcome of the...
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