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cavalry and field artillery school, Fort
Riley, this government pays none Of
the expenses. Otherwise the cadets
and officers are on the same footing
as our own.
AT the United States military acad-
emy at West Point there are four for
eign cadets, A. r. Calvo, Costa Rico;
Frutos Thomas Plaza, Ecuador Ting
CHA Chen and Ying Hsing Wen,
China. Cadet Calvo is a member of
the present second Gunior) class,
while the other young gentlemen are
in the fourth (freshman) class and it
is interesting to know that the Chi
nese are the first cadets ever received
at West Point from that country.
Lieut.. Brugere, of the French army
son of the late generalissimo, it at pres
ent at Fort Leavenworth but the gov
eminent of Mexico has been granted
permission to send two infantry Off
GERS to the infantry and cavalry school
and four officers of the cavalry and
artillery to the school of application
for cavalry and field artillery at Fort
Riley. The two infantry officers are
Lieut.. Jorga Landa, Fifteenth battal-
ion, and Lieut.. Louis Manter, Twen-
tieth battalion. The others are Lieut.
Felipe Neri, Of the Eighth cavalry;
Sub-Lieut. Alfonso Rainos, Fourteenth
cavalry, and Lieuts. Rodol Casillas
and Arturo Certucha, of the artillery.
1t is singular fact that the United
States naval academy at AnnaUolis
has graduated more Japanese than
any other foreign cadets. Until the
death, already mentioned, of Kinjiro
Matsukata, there were two Japanese
cadets there; the survivor is Cadet
Asahi Kitagaki.
The law providing for the admission
of Japanese cadets was passed in
1868, and it has been in effect repealed
by the clause of the naval bill which
provides that foreign cadets can be
appointed only by act of congress
hereafter.
At the Culver summer naval school,
on Lake Maxinkunkee, in Indiana,
there are five foreign cadets, sent
there and being educated at the ex.
pense of their respective gov ernments.
H6y dIG JESUS SdSLTO y EISeuOnQO,
Evanisto Madero and Paul Madero, of
Mexico; Engel C.. Hidalgo, OF Ecuador,
and Tinsan Tsang of China, and the
latter during the winter akes a spe-
cial course at the Massao husetts In.
stitute of Technology, in Toston.
international comfy Is the principal
reason for the opening OF our doors
to the cadets and officers of other
countries. The system is not peculiar
to the United States, for all nations
grant the same courtesy. At the great
French school at st. Cyr and Sarmur
many foreign officers take courses.
At Sandhurst, the British military col
lege, there are always foreign stu.
dents, especially Chinese and Japan.
ese. The biographies of the men who
led the Japanese armies to victory
over the Russians show that most of
them received a part of their training
in foreign schools.
The sending of foreign officers to
our schools is merely a matter of in
ternational courtesy, and we are mere
ly returning, in the case of France, a
compliment that has at various times
been paid to us by that country. In
the case of the South American coun-
tries we are simply extending to them
what other countries extend to them.
Rulers of nations and their minis.
ters feel that this intercourse with
foreigners is good for their own Off.
GERS and cadets and that such courte-
sizes tend in the long run toward amity
and, consequently, toward peace.