The Washington herald., 1917-08-22
nippon MISSION
ARRIVES TODAY
japanese Party VIII Be
Chartered at Home of
Perry Belmont.

The Imperial japanese Mission Of
friendship to the United States will
arrive in Washington at noon today
With full military ceremony they will
be received at the Union Station by
Secretary Of State Lansing and his
stan, and after a short street parade
they will be ensconsed in the palatial
Washington home of Mr.. Perry Bel
mont, OF New York.
The tender of Mr.. Belmonts home
is one that the State Department con-
siders particularly feIicitous. Mr.. Bel
mont is the grandson Of that Admiral
Perry whose tall Yankee frigates
were the first occidental visitors TO be
received in a friendly manner in Jap
anese waters.
In the Belmont house in Washing
ton are gathered many Of the rarest
treasures Of Admiral Perry. The
mission will there find itself among
some OF the finest specimens OF the
art of its own ancestors that there
are in this country. They were gifts
to Admiral Perry from the Samural Of
his time. and he has bequeathed them
to his grandson, who will now enter
tain japanese gentlemen whose visit
may prove as important in inteTna-
tiOnal affairs as was the visit OF Ad-
miral Perry to japan.
An elaborate program OF entertain
ment has already been prepared for
the first few days of the mission S
visit. They will have no official en-
gagements today. On Thursday Wis
count Ishii will call upon the Sec
retary OF State and the military and
naval members will make formal calls
upon Secretary Daniels and Secretary
Baker.
President TO Entertain.
The President and Mrs. Wilson will
entertain the entire mission at dinner
. on Thursday night and on Friday the
Secretaries Of State. War and Navy
viii dine the members Of the mission
with whom their departments will con-
duct negotiations. trip to Mount
Vernon on the Mayfiower and 4 trip 10
Annapolis have been arranged.
The official business Of the mission
will probably not be taken up until
Monday Then. as exclusively outlined
in the International News dispatches
Of the morning, ways and means for
, cementing the friendship between the
United States and Japan will be dis
cussed.
The mission is headed by Wis
count Ishii, ambassador eNtraordi-
nary and plenipatentiary, and is
composed Of Vice Admiral Takes
I hita, Mai. Gen. Sugano, Mr.. Ma
sinao Hanihara, consul general al
San Francisco; Mr.. Matsuze Nagai,
secretary of the foreign office: Com
mander Ando and Maj. Tanikawa,
Mr.. Tadenao Imai, vice consul, Mr..
Tashiro Owaku, secretary, and
Douglas L. Dunbar, American sec
retary to the mission.
They were met at San Francisco
and accompanied across the conti-
nent by Breckenridge Long. third
assistant Secretary of State: Ran
ford S. Miller, consul general al
Corea. formerly in charge Of far
eastern affairs in the State Depart
ment. and assigned as aide to Wis
count Ishii, Brigadier Gen. James A
! Irons, L. s. A. formerly military
attache at Toxic. and assigned as
aide TO Gen. Sugano. and Capt. c
c. Marsh, L. S. N, aide to Admiral
! Takeshita.
Secretary of State Lansing. As
sistant Secretary OF State Philips
and Mr.. A. S. Ruddock will meet
the party at the station. Its es-
cort will consist of two troops of the
Second United States Cavalry.