The sun., 1918-07-20
RED CROSS HEADS
GREET JAPANESE
Mission Here on Way to the
Battle Front to Study So
ciety's Methods.
WELCOMED BY NURSES
Officials of Branch in the
MikadO's Land to View
Sights of New York.

Seven high officials of the Japanese
Red Cross on their way from the Land
Of the Rising Sun to the battle front In
france for the purpose OF studying Red
Cross methods there arrived last night
At the Pennsylvania station.
Save for the presence OF a handful OF
Japanese officers in khaki uniforms the
delegation might have passed for a
group OF japanese business or profess
a.onal men on their way to attend a
convention of some sort. They were
met by a reception committee from the
Atlantic Division and the New York
County Chapter of American Red Cross
headed by Ethan Allen.
A hundred or more white robed Red
Cross nurses also were on hand to well
come the delegation. and they formed a
lane up the stairs leading from the
main waiting room to Thirty-fourth
street, through which the visitors passed
on the way to the automobiles that were
waiting to carry them to the Waldorf.
Conspicuous among the nurses were
twenty diminutive Japanese women resi-
dents of New York, who. like their
American sisters. carried a Red Cross
rag in one hand and the commercial en-
biem OF Japan--a red ball on white
background-in the other.
Nurses Are Introduced.
The japanese nurses were presented
to the head Of the visiting commission.
and each acknowledged tho compliment
with a pretty little Madame Butterfly
curtsey. The commission is composed Of
Or. A. Minawaka. DIR. S. Sawamura, DR..
Y. Naito, s. kageyama. H. Loshizawa,
c. Fujimora and Count X. Katsu.
The visit of the commission to this
country and France will, II Is predicted,
result in a general speeding UP Of Jap
anese war relief activities in Europe.
Japan's Res Cross was organized In
1877 and now has membership OF l.
7s7449. Soon after the start of the war
In Europe It extended the scope OF its
philanthropic work to Europe for the
hrst time in its history. despatching
three divisions to England, Russia and
France.
As part OF the entertainment pro-
cramme arranged by the Atlantic
division and the New York County Chap
ter of the American Red Cross the COM
mission will be taken to the financial
district this morning. They will see the
Stock Exchange and the Woolworth
Building and then will be entertained at
luncheon in the Union Club by Ethan
Allen. In the afternoon they will be
conveyed In automobiles to the avia-
lion neld at MineOla where they Will
witness some exhibition flights by army
aviators
Guests OF H. r. DAWSON.
From Mineola they will accompany
Henry p. Dawson to his summer home
at Locust Valley. where they will remain
until Monday when they will return to
the city to make a tour Of inspection OF
the various Red Cross headquarters.
They will also visit the Botanical Gar
den. where a luncheon will be served
for them by the New York County Chap
ter Canteen Workers In the old Lorilard
mansion. At o'clock in the afternoon
they will take tea in the Red Cross con-
valescent house connected with General
Hospital No. ] in The Bronx.
On their way from San Francisco the
party stopped off at Chicago last Sun
day and paid a visit to the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station. In Washington
they were guests at a dinner given by
Viscount Ishii and we're taken to Camp
Meade, where they were received by
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and a committee
Of women Red Cross workers. Before
leaving the capital yesterday an audi
ence was granted to them by the Presi-
dent.