The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-28
JAPANESE
 POLICY TO
 BE SILENCE

ToBio, Oct. 2S. - The reader in quest for responsible information, may examine Who's Who in Japan? from cover to cover in vsin-he will prominent figures in the Japanese del- egation to the Washington Conference Major General Kunishige Tanaka.
 This officer has been picked as Ja- pans chief military advisor at Wash ington and his remarkable personality is a subject of conversation at Tokio in these days when everybody is in- terested in the make up and charac- ter of the Japanese delegation.
 Tanaka fulfils a favorite Japanese conception of a soldier. He is one of the younger military men whose genius has helped to make the Jap correspondent recently asked a prom inent Japanese civilian what he deemed would be the policy of the Japanese delegation at Washington. The answer was: ''I think it will be a policy of silence, as usuaL'' If such be the case Tanaka will un- doubtedly help to further that policy, for he has the local reputation of be- ing a man of silence when 1t comes to discussing official military matters.
 Socially speaking, however, Tana- ka is one of the most charming men in the empire. He looks very young to be major general, but as he said to the writer, Perhaps I am older than I look. Don't forget that I was a captain in the Russo-Japanese war when I was chief of staff to Marshal Oyama-"
 "It will seem like old times" he went on. "to go to Washington, for. you know, I spent five years in that beautiful city long before the war. Then again during the war I passed through the United States on a visit in France, as well as later to the peace conference at Versailles. think I know your country pretty well, whilst an extensive trip to Mex pretty good idea of conditions obtain ing there. It was while Count Uchi- da, the present foreign minister, was ambassador to Washington that they sent me down to Mexico City to rep resent the Japanese army at an off, cial celebration there. I saw a great deal of President Diaz and became a great admirer of that wonderful man of iron who was such a great leader. Then met Frederick Palmer, the American war correspondent and we logged along together to different states in Central America-''
 If General Pershing becomes the chief military advisor to the Ameri- can delegation, General Tanaxa will be meeting in him an old friend. Tan aka met Pershing when the latter was American attache at the American em baSSy at Tokio and he renewed his acquaintance with the American off, cer when Pershing came up from the Philippines to attend the funeral of the late Emperor Mutsuhito Then again. he met him in France, during the Peace Conference. "I do not need to say" said General Tanaka that we Japanese officers think Gen. eral Pershing is a great and gallant soldier"
 When the writer hinted at official matters such, for instance. as the Japanese military policy at Washing ton, General Tanaka said very frank ly: 'I think I have no statement to make about that
 The general is rather slight of build and would be called a good lock- ing man. He is very modest about his English, but as a matter of fact seems to have the language at his en- tire command and speaks with com- plete readiness He has been select ed by the Japanese army because of his mastery of military matters and his general intellectual equipment. He is a keen observer and is probably the type of man who would speak in an official way not too often and then with the fewest possible words. He has no pastimes except that oi riding, which was his daily diversion while in Washington. His one hob- by is apparently the Japanese army and if need be he will doubtless prove | it's staunch defender.