An Impression of the Conference While august personages conferred behind closed doors and prospects of peace grew brighter, pressmen and cameramen draped themselves about the grounds HW. °M. "Consulate on March 24 nil waited for something to happen, Innmediately in front of the Consulate steps stood a battery of cine motograph machines, their sound paratus ready for use and micro~ hones standing on' the steps th setey me, of thet camer ig, little, and Just medium, were either placed on vantage points command the exit, or eat ried around by eager photographers who brought {hem into action "whenever "any evement down the steps appeared to foreshadow the arrival of the peace delegates, About 12.45 pin. the delegates did come, "Immediately, the best Plans of the cameramen were upset, A throng: of newspaper correspond fents rushed "the. steps, and. the delegations, the Japanese leading, were held up by a barrage of ques:
ins ax to what had happened. The tes were diplomatic anese, and French, Japanese correspondents cornered General Uyeda and General Tashiro and posed them on an edge of the steps for a photograph, "The Japanese Navy appeared to' be en-Uirely forgotten and, after hanging about a short while looking a trifle lost, the naval men climbed into their car and drove away. Nobody seemed to see them go.
General Tai Chi sported a sword with a metal scabbard. He shook hands with a namber of people before he drove away. There was id motor car full of Japanese. soldiers Further down the "drive, 'They. did 1 nothing. 5 'There was a eneral atmosphere of goodwill, Everybody—except the Japanese Navy—was photographed times as he could stand.' All the diplomats expressed opti: ism with, everything. "There was. only one jarring note, and that: came: when an irate gentleman pushed his." head out of a. ssindow- and, ges)" ticulating towards the correspond! ents, asked in sheated tones: "What are those savages doing out these?" "7: Sevages} indeed! poe
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