THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



until midnight, I introduced myself to Colonel Mizukuchi of 

 the Japanese Army, who knew a lot of my Japanese friends, 

 and who in turn introduced me to Captain Nomoura of the 

 Japanese Navy, and also to Baron Sato. I met, as well, the Russian 

 Lieutenant-General Vladimir Roop; the Italian General Gugli- 

 elmotti and the other Italian officers, General Tazzi, Captain 

 Count Enrico Luserna di Campigniole, and Baron Balentini. 

 The Frenchmen I met were Colonel Martin, Captain Rostand, 

 Lieutenant Paternot and Lieutenant I'Englais. I also met a 

 number of the English officers. Lord Eustace Percy had been a 

 member of the Club for some years and had been an attache 

 of the Embassy before the outbreak of the war. The other Eng- 

 lish officers were General McLacklan, General McCormick, 

 Colonel Goodwin, Major Row, Captain Kingman and Captain 

 Dudley. I was especially impressed by General Guglielmotti. 

 He was then a man of fifty-one, with a complexion like a boy 

 of eighteen, and was full of vivacious interest and good nature. 

 I introduced to him Lieutenant Crenshaw of the U, S. Reserve. 

 Crenshaw was a chemist who formerly worked in the geo- 

 physical laboratory and had been badly poisoned with chlorine 

 gas the year before. He had recovered, had been given a com- 

 mission, and put at work on poisonous gases — obviously a very 

 appropriate appointment. General Guglielmotti was much in- 

 terested in him, examined his uniform and remarked on leaving 

 him, "I go away tomorrow. When I see you again I predict you 

 will be at least a colonel, probably a general." I talked with the 

 general for some time, and he never failed to say the kind, 

 tactful, interesting thing. The Frenchman Paternot had been 

 in prison in Germany and had had a devil of a time. He showed 

 it in his face. Another Frenchman, I'Englais, a young chap with 

 one of the sweetest faces I ever saw, had lost his kneecap from 

 a shrapnel wound received on the Aisne. 



[265] 



