The Washington herald., 1921-10-23
FIRST FESTIVITIES
OF FARLEY OPEN
TMSAFTERNOON
War Heroes and Japanese
&. Group to Be Honored
Upon Arrival.

The pomp and ceremony that Is
to mark washington's official and
social life for the next few months
will be ushered in this afternoon
with the arrival of a group Of dis
tinguished officers from Europe
and a large contingent OF the Jap
anese delegation to the conference
on limitation OF ornaments.
Earl David Beatty, admiral Of
the British fleet; Gee. Armando
Diaz of the Italian army and
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Jacques, of the
Belgian army, all of whom won
high honors during the world war
will arrive at the Union Station. a.
2:3O o'clock this afternoon.
They will he received by Third
Assistant Secretary of State Rob-
ert Woods Bliss, representing
President Harding; Rear Admiral
coontz. chief of naval operations
and a number of other army and
navy officers, delegations from the
British, Italian and French en-
bassies and a committee from the
American Legion. In the party
NSAANcSS DC0NAyT HCdA AdLAAl a.
with Admiral Beatty will be
Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. Capt.
Spickernell, r. W., A. D. c., naval
aide and Captain S. r. Bailey. r
N, British naval attache.
VIII Play National Airs.
The party will be received in
the Presidents reception room at
the Union Station. Just outside
the Marine Banl from Quantico
and a large cavalry escort will be
drawn up. As each party leaves
the station to take motors for
their destination the band will
play the national airs and a troop
of cavalry and escort of motor po-
lice will form on either side. The
distinguished guests will proceed
up Pennsylvania avenue as far as
Fourteenth street, where Admiral
Beatty will stop at the New Will
ward and the others proceed sep
arately to the respective embassies.
Tomorrow afternoon the visitors
will begin a round of official visits,
still accompanied bya suitable cav
airy escort and high government
officials. Admiral and Countess
Beatty will visit President and
Mrs. Harding and the Secretaries
OF the State, War and Navy de-
partments, after which they will
return to the White House to be
luncheon guests. The other officers
will be similarly honOred.
Japanese Arrive Later.
At 4:3O this afternoon an impor-
tant contingent Of the Japanese
delegation to the conference will
be formally welcomed. Mr.. Bliss,
accompanied by Richard Southgate.
Hugh Willard and Charles l.. Cooke,
all of the State Department.: Ad-
miral Robert E. Coontz, Capt
Hayne Ellis, Capt. Luke McNamee
and Lieut. Com. H. W. Hill. of the
navy, and Brig. Gen. Andre e.
Brewster and Mai. Karl F. Bald
win, Of the army. will greet the
Japanese. Col. Benjamin Alvord
and COmdr. Earl \. Ship are &C
companying the visitors from Nip
pom.
The party will be accorded all
military honors, including a cavalry
escort to the hotels where they
are to be quartered. In the Japa-
nese delegation are:
Admiral Kato Heads Contingent.
Naval of1cers-Vice Admiral K.
Kato. Capt. K. Yamanashi. Capt. "
Suyetsugu, Capt. Y. Cyeda. COmdr.
T. Hori, Lieut.. Comdr A. Kura-
gano. Lieut.. Comdr. H. Tail. First
Lieut.. T. Kuwahara, First Lieut..
Y. Mito. First Lieut. Watanabe,
First Lieut.. X. Morishima, Pay
master n. Takei. Clerk F Ono,
Clerk T. Eomatsu. Clerk X. Shima.
Army oficers-Maj. Gen. K. Ia
naka. Maj. K. Tashiro. Maj. T. Fu-
rushiro, Lieut.. Col. S. Morita. I. J.
a, Maj. K. Nishihara. Clerk T.
kaizuka. Clerk T. Furusawa
Foreign of1ce-Secretary s. Co
myo. Secretary-Translato c. Ha-
rada, Secretary Y. Okajima. Secre-
tary T. Tamaki. Secretary X. Ina
bara. Clerk T. Koori. Clerk S. Ia
naka. Clerk T. Takaoka, Chancellor
r Sakurai, Chancellor s. Ko-
bayashf. Student Translator Y.
Rimura, Student Translator ". Ma
katani.