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Germans near Paris and that the [[red underline]] regiment of Kronprinz has been annihilated. [[/red underline]]
Game-competitions for children
Afternoon general games. potato race, obstacle race pillow fight, "are you there Bill" etc.  At noon passed near Bird - Island a bare irregular rock which stands boldly out the surface of the ocean. Spent most of the day writing letters. Have almost finished reading "Anticipations" of H.G. Wells and reread "Madame Chrysanthème" of Loti. together with some more publications on Japan.  To morrow we shall be in Honolulu and [[red underline]] everyone is eager to hear more definite news [[/red underline]] about the war. Wrote letters of thanks to the following
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Ishikawa Senior
   "    Junior
[[Irray?]]
Endo
Tanaka
Furuta
Shiohara
Capt. McDonald
September 10 1914 (Thursday) Arrival at Honolulu.  Everybody up early. Medical inspection all passengers lined up on deck [[strikethrough]] Honolulu [[/strikethrough]] Island in clear background. Two German liners [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] the [[red underline]] "Pommern" [[/red underline]] and "Prinz [[red underline]] Wlademar" [[/red underline]] in port have reached there a few days ago escaping british and japanese cruisers by running without lights.  Will now stay in port till war is over.
Last night I had a thorough discussion with Casey who is one of those smug self complacent