Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-09

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, \. R. Calvo, Costa Rico: Frutos Thomas Plaza, Ecuador: Ting Chia Chen and Ting Hsing Wen, China. Cadet Calvo Is member of the present second dunior) class, while the other young gentlemen are in the fourth tfreshman) class, and 1t is interesting 10 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. 1t at pres. ent at Fort Leavenworth. but the gov. ernmcnt of Mexico has been granted permission to send two infantry ofIi. cers 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 Lleut. Louis Manter, Twen. tieth battalion. The others are Lieut.. Felipe Neri. of the Eighth cavalry; Sub-L!eut. Alfonso Rainos. Fourteenth cavalry. and Lieuts. Rodol Casillas and Arturo Certucha. of the artillery.
 It is singular fact that the United States naval academy at Annal,li has graduated more Japanese than any other foreign cadets. Until the death, already mentioned, of Kinjlro Matsukata. there were two Japanese cadets there: the survivor is Cadet Asahi Kltagakl
 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 and It has been in effect repealed by the clause of the naval bill which provides that foreign cadets can be appointed only by act of congress hereafter.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 Maxlnkunkee. in Indiana, there are five foreign cadets, sent there ani being educated at the ex. pensc or the'r respective governments. They are Jesus Castro Ansedondo Evanisto Madero and Paul Madero, of Mexico; Engel c. Hidalgo. of Ecuador, hnd Tinsan Tsang. of China. and the latter during the winter takes a spe. flal course at the Massachusetts In. &titute of Technology. in Boston.
 International comity Is the principal 3eason for the opening of our doors 10 the cadets and officers of other countries. The system is not peculiar to the United States. for all nations krant the same courtesy. At the great French school at St. Cyr and Sarmur many foreign officers take courses. At Sandhurst. the British military col. fiege. 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 bur schools Is merely a matter of in. |tcrnatio1al courtesy. and we are mere fly returning. in the case of France. 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 of |cers and cadets and that such courte- |sses tend In the long run toward a-ai'y sad. consequently. toward peace.