Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-25
JAPANESE MISSION
AT CRADLE OF NAVY
ViscOunt lshii and Enjoys Inspect
Naval academy
OFFICIAL COURTESIES SHOWN
Fanfare of Music and Regiment cf
Fourth Class Middies Reviewed.
Buffet Luncheon

The Japanese envoys. headed by
Viscount lshii. now in this country
to discuss, international affairs be-
tween the American and Imperial
japanese Governments. came here to-
day and inspected the cradle OF the
American Navy-the Naval Academy.
the greatest institution OF its kind in
the world. The members OF The mis-
sion were only her for brief stay.
however. as they returned TO Wash
ington on a special car at 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
The official party arrived in Anna
polls on a special car from Washing
ton shortly before 1880 o'clock. Ac-
companying the ENJOYS were Briga-
der General Irons. u. $. Army: Cap
tain Charles c. Marsh, U. S. Navy,
and Lieut.. Com. Byron McCandiess.
U. $. Navy, official aide TO Secretary
of the Navy Daniels. I'm addition To
Viscount lshii, others in the official
party were as follows
Vice Admiral Takeshita. Maj. Gen.
Sugano, Commander Ando and Mai
Tankawa; Masanao Hanihara. consul
general at San Francisco; Matsuzo
Nagi, secretary OF the foreign Office.
Tadeanao, vice consul; Tashiro
Owaku, secretary. and Douglas L.
Dunbar, American secretary to the
mission.
A fanfare OF music by the Naval
Acadmey oand marked the passage
of the Official party through the No
? gate on their way TO. the Superin-
tendent's Quarters, a feature of which
was the playing OF the Japanese Ma
tional air. The visiting officers bowed
acknowledgment
The special car bearing the envoys
stopped at one Of the lower entrances
to the government reservation. There
Captain Edward W Eberle, Superin-
tendent of she Academy, and the rank
ing officers on duty at the institution
: had assembled to greet the distin-
guished guests as they alighted from
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of the American officers the members
of the mission strolled slowly TO the
Superintenc residence. short
distance away. After a brief chat
there, the envOys we're taken over to
Worden Field at the northwest end of
the Academy grounds, where they
witnessed an infantry drill by the
regiment of fourth class Midshipmen,
the regiment afterward passing in re-
view bef0re~the Official party For
| newcomers the young Middies. with
! only a couple of months instruction
in the military. presented fine APP
pearance. and this as the subject OF
favorable comment by Vlscount lshii
and others OF the mission. Follow
/ ing the drill the Japanese visitors
were taken on a tour Of inspection OF
buildings and grounds. which includ-
ed visit 10 the big Naval Chapel,
| and with barred heads the officers from
| the Orient stood before the crypt
/ where rest the remains Of John Paul
l Jones, Americas great naval hero
The japanese officers manifested
I especial interest in their inspection
Of Uncle Sans great naval school.
and in course Of chats with their
brother officers of the American Navy.
they could not help but recall the fact
that number Of japanese students
/ received their naval training here i'm
Annapolis. some of whom are now
serving in their own navy Notable
among these in Admiral Uriu.
Winding up the inspection Of build
ings, the members 0 the mission were
escorted to the residence Of Superin-
tendnt Eberle. where they were en-
tertained at buffet luncheon.