Enjoyable Parties: Admiral Who Did Conjuring Tricks Tokyo, Dee. 8.
A report from the str, Siberia Maru, which is on her way to America with the Japanese delegation to the forthcoming five-Power Naval Conference in London, states:
"The ship has already' passed south of the Alaska Peninsula. Eleven hundred miles covered before™w Japan is practically within our reach in wireless communication.
"To-night a suki-yaki party was held in the dining-room, where forty mats fora tanami were spread. The foreign ladies aboard, including the two daughters of Professor Shot-well, who attended the recent Pacific Relations Conference in Kyat peared in furisode kimonos, eleven were wearing the Katui social programme followed, when 'Mme, Takarabe, wife of the Japan-inister of the Navy, sang 'Admiral Abo did conjuring tricks marvellously well; Mr. Yam kawa Kawasaki sang folk songs; and Mr. Wakatsuki, the former Premier, who heads' the Japanese delegation, made a humorous speech.
"The ship is expected to reach Seattle on Wednesday morning, where she is to be met by Mr. Balentein, formerly American Consul-General in Tokyo, representing the State Department, and by Mr, Sotomatu Kato of the Japanese Embassy in Washington."
'A wireless from the Siberia Maru says that Mr, Wakatsuki stated to a agency correspondpy ak approaching America, which I visited 23. years) ago and where part of my important mission is to be fulfilled. I have enjoyed the voyage immensely, though I suffered from seasickness the first two days.
"It is a happy recollection that 1 have had delightful hours with Professor Shotwell, discussing world peace and disarmament. I firmly believe that the forthcoming Naval Conference will be equally successful as the Washington Conference. I fam looking forward to see America and its people."
The correspondent _wirelesses: "The sea was flooded with bright, sunshine this morning and there was the finest weather we ever had on the present voyage. The colour! fof the sea looks more cheerful than the past several days, when the ship was sailing south of the Aleutian Islands, The ship is now' ploughing through an equatorial counter current,"—Reuter,
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