The sun., 1904-06-12
JAPS DISGUISED AS CHINESE.
SPIES THAT PENETRATE EVEN'
INTO MANCHURIAN WILDS.

INTO MANCHURIAN WILDS.
Russians Know II. hut Can't Prevent It
--Experience@ or q Japanese VINO Had
Played Many Roles--Red Beard Han.
dts Help - Their Or6anizaueu.
1t IL no secret that thore are Japanese
In disguise az Chinese going with mpunity
among the real Chinese all over the Russian
lines. as coolies or navvies, barrack builders,
trench diggers peddlers, hewers Of wood
and drawers df water, vendors OF beer and
cigarettes and cheap pocket knives and
everything else imaginable. The Russians
know 1t, say the Singapore Straits Budget
but cannot prevent It, for there is absolutely
no telling q Japanese from Chinese II
made up alike, and the question cannot
be solved by excluding all, for the Russians
cannot get along without the Chinese
Tho British In India without any Hindoos
would not be more helpless. Though we
hear 50 much Of Russian .emigrants and
peasant soldiers pouring into this part
Of the world they seem to have been swal-
lowed up, for when there Is work to be
done it has to wait till Chinese can be got.
Without them the Russians seem unable
even to carry on tho war. And when
which one among them may be disguised
Japanese.
OF course. as long a. he is In Manchuria
he keeps his secret as closely a. the grave,
for his life probably depends on It. But
having got clear away he likes to be rid
Of pigtail and dirty garb and become once
more q clean and decent Japanese. Usually
the transformation Is effected In private,
so that none but his intimates know, for
at q lodging house used by both nationalities,
nobody keeps count or notices II China
man goes in or Japanese comes out So
1t is rather curious work getting on the
track Of these men from Manchuria and
finding out anything about them.
OF course. they do not reveal their identity
and tell all they know to any one; but, on
the other hand, even the most discreet
man can have an acquaintance or two,
with whom he may converse about his ad-
ventures, so long as he is only telling OF
things which can be seen and known by all.
It is no secret that hawkers 60 from village
to village in Manchuria, selling buttons and
tapes, and doing other harmless necessary
business, even in regions infested by the
Hung-hu-tze, the Red Beard Bandits. 1t
Is no secret that q man can join the bandits,
raiding towns. stealing whole herds SO OF
up rails to battle the pursuing forces and
as swiftly and mysteriously
as De Wet in the Transvaal or Aguinaldo in
the Philippines. And it is well known
how, in the last resort, II houy pressed,
the bandits can either make terms and share
A. tha o<,yo
role of peaceful peasants and appear in
the fields working as innooently as any yokel
that ever lived on farm.
The peasantry do not as a rule betray
them, for several reasons. First, from the
fear OF vengeance; secondly, because the
old Robin Hood In posing as friends Of the
because the Cossacks themselves are worse |
brgands than the Hung-hu-tze. Soldiers
chiefly prey on the poor and helpless, leav-
Ing the influential people carefully alone.
say: 1T is all the same whether we have |
Chinese officials or forei ign, for we are robbed
in either case. Chinese or foreign soldiers |
all are ruffians and swashbucklers. alike, |
bully US, take what they will and pay |
half or nothing do what they win with
Wills that human beings must suffer certain |
evils That Is the attitude Of the Chinese
at large.
or the Japanese who have been in Man.
,huria In Chinese guise, some find their way |
back via Shanhaikwan and Tientsin. some
There have been a dozen
steamers leaving Newchwang since the ice
broke up, and they took away over 5000 |
Chinese, artisans, tradesmen, farmers
md 80 on. all anxious to get away from |
he war, with its dangers and troubles.
NJ tN,,at n,,k NJ khaI
IS 1000, perhaps there might be five dis
zuised Japanese. do not know and ! |
merely guess really know of only one..
He belonged to Osaka and had been
carpenter, coal dealer. bankrupt, railway |
,lerk, school teacher, steward on a steamer.
ault OF his own--and then became tourists |
ylide for Europeans and Americans doing |
he sights of Japan. He was in the Chino !
Japanese War in 1894, but would not say In
What capacity though verified his knowl-
,dge Of the campaign and Of some details
vas not there. From 1895 his movements |
must remain his own secret up to the Boxer |
.me, when he was again in "a certain part |
II China" which Is the current Japanese |
ormula for saying. Don't ask too much.'
Since 1900 this man had been in various |
Is Japanese, but at other times 1T was |
natives to pass as one Of them" So 1t is; |
here are some hundreds Of Europeans and |,
americans in missionary work who find it |
,est to do the same. Once he kept medium |
ow class beerhouse for Russian soldiers |
at a certain town. Then he was Manchu |
,xpectant sub-prefect. |. e., he had sup |
,osedly passed (by bribery the civil service |
up to the rank of sub-pre- |
'ect, but was still in want OF berth, again |
. matter Of bribery; meantime he belonged |
o the great army OF unemployed and i'm !
,ecunious aristocracy Of China. Again, |
,e was a Japanese barber, then Chinese |
,orse dealer in a small way, travelling In |
'emote country districts. He added, laugh |
nR, Il had no horses, no customers, never |
,cuoht or sold an ANIMAL asked (well |
.Then what did you dog He |
answered, "Yasomimashita, hontol' ~Tak- |
ng q rest trulyr' And we both laughed
Well, he said, there were things which |
,ould not be divulged, Of course, but there |
vas no harm in saying few things which |
we're already open FOR all the world to see |
or themselves. How many more Japanese |
,ad done the same a. himself Naturally, |
hat could not be stated, even II he knew; |
md probably not moro than two or three |
non In the world. knew. 1t was obvious |
% any one that there might we'll be fifty, or q |
hundred or any number, and that they could |
everywhere; for Il the Russians
wish to build house or barrack or fort !
o lay q railway siding. to. ferry a regi,,