#ffirial Sullrtin PUBLISHED DAILY UNDER ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT BT THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION GEORGE CREEL, CHAIRMAN Vol. 1. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1917 No. 81. JAPAN TO SEND DIPLOMATIC a LIBERTY LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED ; IS A GENUINE MISSION TO UNITED STATES TRIUMPH FOR DEMOCRACY" SECRETARY M'ADOO The Department of State authorizes Secretary McAdoo made the following protection of American rights and the the following: announcement to-day : reestablishment of peace and liberty The Department of State is advised of the intention of the Japanese Govern " The Liberty Loan has been over throughout the world to a swift and ment shortly to send a diplomatic mis subscribed. It is impossible to state successful conclusion. sion to the United States. This will be the amount of oversubscription at the " I am deeply grateful to the bankers, headed by Baron Kikujiro Ishii. Baron moment, but the exact figures will be Ishii was formerly minister for foreign the business men, the women of Amer affairs. He was born in 1866 at Chiba. given out as rapidly as the returns are ica, the patriotic organizations, and the He graduated in law from the Imperial received at the Treasury Department. people generally, without whose cordial Tokyo University in 1890. He was an at " The success of this loan is a gen cooperation and enthusiastic support tache in the legation in France in 1891. uine triumph for democracy. It is the He became third secretary of that lega success could not have been won. It tion in 1893. In 1896 he was consul at unmistakable expression of America's has been an inspiring campaign and it Nitisen. He went to Peking as second determination to carry this war for the has had a glorious finish." secretary of legation in 1897. and was promoted the following year to be first secretary. He went through the siege of Peking during the Boxer trouble. He was chief of the telegraph section of the WITH PERSHING IN PARIS, AMERICA ACTIVELY BEGINS foreign office in 19(H) and director of the HER PARTICIPATION IN WAR, SAYS SECRETARY BAKER Commerce Bureau in 1904. He was ap pointed vice minister for foreign affairs in June, 1908, and was afterward ambas The Secretary of War has given-out the following statement: sador to Paris. Following that appoint " The arrival of Gen. Pershing awl his staff in Paris marks the ment he became minister for foreign af beginning of America's active participation in the war. The splendid fairs. reception given these American officers, as well as the officers of our In addition to Viscount Ishii. who Is made an ambassador extraordinary and destroyer squadron, in England, and France, shores the harmony of plenipotentiary, the mission includes: spirit with ichuh three, great peoples are pursuing a common end. Isamu Takeshita, vice admiral, Impe Our combined armies from, now on wiU represent a league to enforce rial Japanese Navy. peace with justice. llisaichi Sugano, major general, Im perial Japanese Army. , " Newton D. Baker, Matsozo Nagai, secretary of the for "Secretary of War." eign olfice. Masataka Ando. lieutenant comman der, Imperial Japanese Navy. Seiji Tanikawa, major, Imperial Jap A great many distinguished lawyers anese Army. ATTORNEYS SEEKING TO SERVE and legal professors, men of national Tadanao Imai. vice consul. standing, applied to the Judge Advocate's Vice Admiral Takeshita was formerly ON ADVOCATE GENERAL'S STAFF department early after the declaration of naval attache in Washington. war and even before the President's final Mr. Nagai, secretary of the foreign The War Department issues the fol word was read. Tlioy were eager to act office, was formerly Japanese consid gen lowing : as soldier, lawyer, or to accept any post eral at San Francisco, and at one time where there was a chance to offer them was third secretary at Washington. The Judge Advocate General's olfice selves to their country. has received a great number of applica Some of Men Chosen. tions from attorneys seeking the commis WOMEN DEFENSE COMMITTEES. sion of major on the staff of the Advocate After a painstaking weeding out, sev General In the field. The men who have eral majors were created, umong them Divisions Organized in About 30 States sought appointment have been so highly Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of with Permanent Officers. qualified — and many of them have been War, who was assigned to duty at the so distinguished in the law — that it War College. < »ther well-known men The women's committee of the Council has been hard at times to sel(«t a few who have made similar offers and re of National Defense announces that or from so much good material. ceived similar appointments are Prof. ganization of State divisions of the com It would be well to disabuse the public Eugene Wambangh and Prof. Felix mittee, with permanent officers, has been mind of any superstition to the effect Frankfurter, both of the law faculty of completed in approximately 30 States. that the applicants under the legal branch Harvard ; Dr. James Brown Scott, one Six States reported selection of perma of the Army are looking for a " snap " of the country's leading authorities on nent chairmen to-day, as follows: or for a " silk stocking " position far in international law ; Prof. John II. Wig- South Dakota — Dr. Helen F. Peabody, the rear of the actual fighting. more, dean of Northwestern University ; Sioux Falls. and Gaspar G. Bacon, son of Robert Texas — Mrs. Frederick Fleming, Dal Will Be in Fighting Force. Bacon, former ambassador to France. las. Ohio — Mrs. George Zimmerman, Fre The officers acting on the staff of the mont. Judge Advocate General will be members COUNSEL FOR SHIPPING BOARD. Alabama— Mrs. James F. Hooper, of the actual fighting force and, in the The United States Shipping Board an Selma. pursuit of duty, will be brought into the nounces the appointment of Mr. Alfred Iowa— Mrs. Francis W. Whitley, Web danger zone just as often as other Huger. of the firm of Huger, Wilber & ster City. specialized commissioned men, medical of Guerard, of Charleston, S. C, as admi Colorado — Mrs. W. H. Kistler. ficers, for instance. ralty counsel of the board. mMM* THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. air fleet which we are planning to build. The idea is so vast that it would read "PUT THE YANKEE PUNCH INTO THE WAR !" like the dream of an old-fashioned fiction writer. No young boy could be concerned BY AIRPLANE ROUTE, URGES GEN. SQUIER, in a story of adventure more wonderful than this ' Yankee punch ' should furnish DIRECTOR OF NATION'S AVIATION SERVICE to actual experience, and the Prussians have never dreamed of an expedition so Should Be Able to Produce, in Short Time, an Absolutely Over mighty or so sensational. Our air pro gram should have the effect of working whelming Aerial Fleet, He Declares — Sweep the Germans both ways — crushing, the nerve out of Germany and inspiring our folks at home From the Sky and Blind Prussian Cannon, with renewed enthusiasm for the war. * Is What He Favors. " We have seen Germany, time and time again, take 100,000 or 200,000 men back or fortli for the gain or loss of a The Committee on Public Information little ground. Then there is more digging " The American punch must be j^iven in, more building of shelters, more living Authorizes the following: through our airplanes. " Put the Yankee punch Into the war ! " " I haven't the slightest doubt of the in the mud and dust, burrowing like is the way Gen. George Owen Squier, Yankee's nerve and ability to endure any moles. Our young men can not go wild who directs the Nation's aviation service, hardship as well as — perhaps better over warfare in the trenches, however expresses it in discussing the huge aero than — the citizen of any other country. splendidly they will do their duty. But plane program which, if passed by Con But what' I am considering is how to put the war into the air — and watch us gress, will involve aji appropriation of give American qualities to our brothers fight ! " something like $600,000,000 in the begin in arms at their maximum efficiency. ning. It may grow into an expenditure The answer again is airplanes and yet NEXT CUSS TO ENTER NAVAL of a much larger sum. more airplanes. Every young American " By the Yankee punch," says Gen. worthy of the name would be keen to join ACADEMY WILL BREAK RECORD Squier, " I mean a characteristically our flying army. The game ideally suits American way of working to get big re our national temperment. With the The Navy Department authorizes the sults. We have a reputation of looking wealth we can devote and our unquali following: at old things from a new angle, and there fied facilities for manufacturing there is The largest class on record will enter Is no reason why the American Army, no reason in the world why we should the United States Naval Academy this when it takes the field, should not live not be able to produce, in a comparatively summer, the number being estimated at up to what they stand for. The field of short space of time, an absolutely over between 750 and 775. This increase is glory for us will be in the air, sending whelming aerial fleet. An army in the due to the granting of one extra appoint our myriads of airplanes over the Ger air, regiments and brigades of winged ment to each Senator and Representative man lilies to teach Germany that we have cavalry, mounted on gas-driven Dying in Congress, a total of 531.