The commander of the convoy, concerned about the fate of the vital Militor, pulled it out of the convoy and had it shipped by rail to Eureka, Nevada. The diarist recorded his dissension in the diary, not something a junior officer would do lightly. Indeed, something of that type risked being a career ender.
But the diarist may have well be right. Progress that day ground to a halt. While the Militor was now suffering from its hard use, the convoy may well have suffered due to its absence.
On the same day, the wife of the Secretary of the Navy was present in Hawaii to push a button to open a new dry dock at Pearl Harbor.
American troops continued a new pursuit south of the border, but Mexico was once again not pleased.
Elsewhere there was a food sale:
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