Evening journal., 1914-09-16
DIPLOMATS BUSY
DURING THE WAR
Foreign Representatives OF
Washington Must Keep
"On the Job
WIRELESS NOTES
DISTURB SLEEP
BY BURTON X. sTANDIsH.


WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.-Wash-
ington Is today about the only great
world power where the full diplo-
matte corps of the warning nations
are "on the job" AS a fact these
here practically never get a full
rights rest. Wireless and cable
messages from the front awaken
them at all hours, night and day.
Just recently at the British Eme
bassy. Ambassador Spring-Rice, said
lie was aroused almost every night
and he, like Lord Kitchener, almost
sleeps on his desk.
Some days ago the Ambassador re-
turned TO Washington from his va
cation abroad and hurried to the
embassy. / met him In the hall dur
ing his first weekday He. was rush
ing about coat off, collar unbuttoned,
tie united and hair mussed, but he
beamed with smiles when he told
how he eluded everyone coming from
London TO Washington by travelling
under an assumed name. To think
that he escaped the ship news re-
porters" in New York gave him the
greatest delight.
But as soon as one talks to the
/ ambassador about the war he be-
comes almost another man. Talking
one day about the eXpeditionary
! force which went from England to
I Belgium to join the allies he said;
"l have a brother-in-law and cousin
/ i'm that force which has been in some
bitter fighting. / haven't heard a
word from them" Then he paused
and his head dropped in deep
thought. Finally he added: zone
| doesn't smile at war when il comes
so close home as that"
One OF the most interesting am
hassadors Is NJ. Jules J. Jusserand,
] of France. dean Of the corps in
Washington. He returned to the
United States on the same steamer
with Ambassador SpringRice. but
when | saw him he never mentioned
his trip across. He was too much
concerned with the cause and effects
of the war because, like Bryce, he
is a great French writer, especially
a critic and historian.
This is not a war between nations
he said. It's a conflict between two
ideas of vernment-between auto
craoy and democracy. The Alliance
represents the former, the allies the
latter. Whichever triumphs viii
dominate all governments for years
to come
Then the ambassador picked up &
large white sheet Of paper and reaC
his latest official dispatches. AnC
thus he expressed his system o
. keeping dispatches. All are natur
ally sent in code On one side tn
. psper he pastes the code messages
L on the other his secretaries writ
the translation into French. He Il
turn translates the French into Eng
lish for his callers.
Since the German Ambassador
Count Johann Won BernstOrff. re
turned from Berlin, he has, for tn
first time since he has represente
Germany in the United States, talke
freely but with great care. | saw hi
one afternoon at the Embassy. II
received me in his study but sat o
a bench hdgeting large steel rimme
spectacles. He. too. vas grave an
to show how the war comes HON
\ to him" he said he left his wife
Munich where she expected to joi
: the German Red Cross Society corr
: Of nurses. his son joined the EN-
, perOr's guard and all his secretariC
We're left lat the front"
III at the Japanese Embassy, VII
count Chinda, the ambassador is Sc
dom seen. Under secretaries carr
messages back and forth One
the interesting phases of the dipl'
! matte corps of Japan IS that not
member is a graduate of an Americs
III University Many of them, howeve
said Mr.. IT. Saite, an attache, al
III graduates of German universitie
III while all of them have taken q
| regular college course at the II
II perial University in Tokyo.
II One day during the heavy fghtil
III in Belgium one of the attaches of {
German embassy was talking abo
. the big lot the embassy bought
IN Massachusettes avenue where &C
many expected to erect a million d.
II lar embassy. He was asked WI
III Germany intended TO do with the
a now war will eat into the Germ
treasury "Oh. we're going to u
- it for a burying ground he &
| swered