The New York herald., 1921-11-27
LOOKING IN
on the conference
Thrill and Novelty of World Gathering Are Fading and
Drama Grows Pale With Some of Leaders Gone
Month of Serious Work Is Before the Delegates

and the French and sharp language on
both sides. Yet England and France
have not had a war for more than l0o
years and they have fought side by side
several times. / have heard members
| OF their respective Governments using
ferocious language and have seen them
at lunch a little later, chummy as you
please"
There are an extraordinary number OF
| Chinese not connected with the confer
ence to be found in Washington. Hun
dreds of Chinese students have come here
to follow at first hand the negotiations
to settle the future of the sons OF Ham.
They are much "Americanized." but they
burn with zeal and ardently seize every
opportunity to plead the cause OF their
country. 1t is a little startling to have
the boy that has just served your chop
suey pause by the table to ask you what
you think will be done toward revising
| the 5 per cent. ad valorem tariff restric-
tion fastened upon the Chinese customs
! in 1912 or to have the cook waddle from
the kitchen to define in irreproachaple
English the Chinese definition OF Chi
nese territory. No matter how poor, all
contribute every week to the propaganda
| fund This manifestation OF the possl-
bilities of the Oriental mind makes one
| thoughtful.
They don't like the Japanese. don't
even pretend to. It would be hard to
converse fifteen minutes on Far Eastern
questions with one of these extremely
| modernized Chinese without getting SUBJ
tly or directly the reflection of the dis
| like and suspicion they feel toward their
neighbors.
One of the principal Chinese here. a
military adviser to the delegation, rs
Gen. Chen, a graduate of West POINT III
the Class of 1909. His American CLASS
mates are Majors or Leutenant-Coionels,
but the Chinese soldier won RAPID rams
by fighting against bandits IN MS own
country and received several high deco
rations for services performed for the
Allies in the great war.
The Washington pickpocket. unlike
prohibition enforcement officers. is nc
respecter of diplomatic immunity. Iatsu
Hawai-, one of the Japanese attaches
was touched" as the saying IS, wniie
entering or leaving theatre at the
Thanksgiving matinee. He mourns the
! loss OF $3.50. not to mention private pa
pers contained in the wallet. The police
say word runs through the underworld
that tho Japanese are made or none!
| and that special attention Is being PAID
| to them by nimble handed thieves.
Washington high prices make the di'
plomats shudder. M. BRAND bought
hat the other day. paying $40, about 1SC
francs for 1t. Maybe 1t goes on his ex-
pense account. but the cost caused the
thrifty F'renchman to exclaim "A month
| in America would ruin me-"
The French are not spending much
money outside of their official entertain
ments. nor are the British for that mat
ter, but the Japanese are making the
money fly. Whatever price is asked
| they pay without comment or argument
Most Of them live at the Shoreham. an
excellent place to thin out pocketbooks
A Democratic politician walked in the
street with this writer to-day. got a
square look at Prince Lyesato Toku-
gawa. head of the Japanese delegation
as he passed in a motor car. The politi-
clan stopped in his tracks. 'T was try
ing to think the other day who that fell
low looks like" he said. Don't you get
it? Charles F. Murphy of Tammany
Hall-sane build, same small. keen
eyes behind glasses, same shape of head
Land features; hard to tell apart