The Washington herald., 1918-07-17
JAP RED CROSS
COMMISSIONER
DISTRICT now
Delegates on Way to Europe
Will Stay in Washing
ton Until Friday.

The Japanese Red Cross commis-
sion. which IL on Its way to Europe
to familiarize itself with methods
being pursued BY the American Red
Cross there. arrived in Washington
at $50 yesterday afternoon and was
met at the Union Station by Henry
p. Davidson. chairman of the Red
Cross War Council. and other ofiicia1s
Of the American Red Cross.
The visiting commission was re-
ceived In the Red Cross canteen. now
occupying the Presidents room at the
station, by members OF the Refresh
ment Corps of the local Red Gross
Chapter, including Miss Margaret
Wilson. daughter Of the President.
The commission was then driven. to
the Washington Hotel by the motor
corps of the local chapter. under the
direction of Mrs. j. Borden Hartman.
An the women of the local Red Cross
Chapter wore the regulation uniform
Of their corps.
Prince Tokugawa Mt Head.
The commission 10 headed by Prince
Tokugawa, descendent Of Shotgun
family, and includes DR.. Arata Nina
guwa, DR.. shigemin Sawamuro. DR..
Yasushi Naito. DR.. Sadaka Kage-
yama, Hideys Yoshida, Hideya Fur
usawa- Chuichiro Fusimori, Count
Kuwashi Katsu and X. K. Kawa-
kami. secretary to the prince.
Leaving Chicago at o'clock. Mon
day. the commission was the recipi-
ent Of flowers and other expressions
Of friendship on the part Of American
Red Cross workers and others all
along the way. At o'clock In the
morning. the Pittsburgh chapter had
a committee at the station which pre-
sented the members OF the commission
with flowers, oranges. chocolate and
cigarettes. the same as Is furnished
soldiers by the Red Cross canteen
service. At one or two of the larger
cities the Prince was called on for
speech and addressed the Red Cross
workers briefly.
party at the hotel, Viscount Ishii.
Japanese Ambassador. called on
Prince Tokugawa- The commission
dined Informally with the Ambas-
sador last night. This morning they
will go to Camp Meade. in company
with Mrs. Wilson, wife Of the Presi-
dent. and Henry p. Dawson. of the
American Red Cross. Tonight they
will be entertained at dinner by
Viscount Ishii. at the japanese En-
bassy, to meet some of the more
prominent Red Cross officials.
Tomorrow the commission will go
to Mount Vernon on the Presidents
yacht, Mayfiower. and will also visit
Arlington. In the afternoon they
will be received by the Secretary Of
State, and at 2:30 o'clock will be
given a reception In front Of the
American Red Cross headquarters,
with brief talks by Prince To-
kugawa, Viscount Ishii. Frank N.
Doubleday, John W. Davis, counsel
or OF the Red Cross. and Mr.. Davi-
son. The commission will lunch to-
morrow with the Foreign and In
sular Division Of the American Red
Cross. and following the Red Cross
reception will visit the Potomac Di-
vision headquarters of the organi-
zation at Sixteenth and K streets.
Henry p. Dawson will entertain
the commission with q reception and
dinner at the willard Hotel. tomor-
row night, at which prominent gov
ernment and Red Cross oficials and
others VIII be present
Reception By President.
The commission will be received
by the President at the White House
at o'clock Friday afternoon. fol-
lowing a visit to the Capitol and
the Congressional Library, under the
direction of Henry White. manager
of the Potomac Division. They will
leave on the Congressional Limited
Friday afternoon, to be the week.
end guests of Henry P. Dawson.
at his country home on Long Island.
Among those to receive the COM
mission at the station yesterday
afternoon were Eliot wadsworth,
acting chairman Of the central COM
mittee of the American Red Cross;
Frank N. Doubleday, recently Red
Cross Commissioner to Japan; Otis
II. Cutler, manager of the foreign
and insular division of the Red Cross !;
and Henry White, manager of the
Potomac division Of the organiza-
tion. William r. Kea, an American
in business for the last twenty-five
years in Yokohama. met the COM
MISSION. Red Cross representative,
at San Francisco, and accompanied