The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22
JAP PANfS[ TRAIN
! SPIES IN CHINA
Brain and Brawn of the Picked
Little Brown Men Care
fully Developed
Simple Life Methods the Rule
for Those Who Attend
Institution

lnSIltutlOn
About four miles from the bund of
Shanghai, along the road towards the
great sprawling arsenal of Kianyang.
lies the little squalid village of Tun
Wen. The narrow mucky street, closely
populated with elementary human be-
ings, saw backed hogs. and lank mon
grels of the canine genus, meanders
hither and thither in its picturesque
nastiness until a gateway with some
pretensions to modernity, and with
large gilt kilograms on it's facia, opens
to the grounds of the Tun Wen
college. Armed with a card from the
number of weird characters were
scrawled, 1 presented myself to ex-
Commander Nedzu, late of the imperial
Japanese navy, and now president or
principal of one of the most, curious
seats of learning in the world.
Founded Immediately after the Chino
Japanese war-provision having been
made therefor in the capftulations-th.e
Tun Wen college has for its object
when all frills are stripped away-the
training OF young Japanese in every
thing necessary to secure Japan's pre-
ponderance in the Chinese empire. No
better evidence of China's She1plessness
and hopeiessness could be forthcoming g
than that AFFORDED by this fact. It was
voiced by Chinese official in. n.conversa-
ton with me while discussing the in
stitution. He said: at is the Franco
Prussian war over again. Thea the
German knew more about France than
the French did, themselves. - These
Japs are doing the same here, and we
can't stop them They have their
treaty rights
PLAIN DIET AND HARD STUDY s7e
The students are selected and sent
from every prefecture in Japan, each
Of which supports its own nominees. :
The buildings OF the college are es-
sential1y japanese, simple and cheap as
regards their appearance and construc-
ton, and with a total absence of os-
tentatioq in their architecture. They
were built solely for use and not for
shew This is typical of that gigantic
force which has arisen in the Pacific
which considers only the usefulness of
anything.
Similarly after I had seen one room
full of students in the midst OF a se-
we're. examination in, the English Ian
guage. and another lot studying Chi
nese under a professor of Asiatic repu-
tation. big gong having sounded, l
saw them at their mid day meal. They
ate 1t standing. 1t was rice with a
slight, sea soning. @. s
In a corner of the quadrangle stood
a roughly built she'd, with light walls
and lattice work apertures; the floor
was strewn with thick grass mats COW
cred with canvas It was the jiu jitsu
school or place of exercise. Two of the
college champions gave. me an exhi-
bition-I presume their rice was al
ready digested-and should be 10th
to engage in a rough and tumble with
either of those five foot nothing ter
rors. despite my six feet and. .1S5
pounds. In one study sat round
faced, closely cropped youngster, read
ing. He handed me the book and
asked my opinion about 1t. It was
The Simple Life" and that book was
never read in more appropriate sur
roundings. The entire kit and equip
ment of Their might have cost
$3.50. The reader was in the CONNER
cial department. preparing to take up
one of those fat billets which are now
going to the Japanese every day at a
1.-THE Of the remuneration hitherto paid
to foreigners.
CULTIVATE "DETAILS
Other students wore their hair In diff
ferent. stages of length; they We're on
the 'politicaF side. and the hair is
worn long with an object. On first en-
tering the college the political-and
some of the Observation-Disclosures cul-
tivate the growth of their hair by, every
possible means. Then, toward the con-
clusion of their term, they adopt the
queue of the Chinese, shaving their
heads in rthe :; accepted manner and
plating into their own property---if re-
quired-the easily bought tails of hu-
man hair, with their silk combinations
necessary to make proper pigtail
The. Jap student. of today strips Of
his simple uniform Cor kimono-dons
the dungaree garments of John China
man, strolls out to the farthests corner
of. the celestial empire-note book In
sleeve and eyes open to anything '1Ise-
full to his ,country--in appearance a
Chinese; in fact, the Japanese "investi-
gator" of tomorrow. 1T was from this
college that Japanese spies. who did
such 'greatwork for .thefrzcountry dur
ing the recent war, wereS drawn. 1t Is
from this college that the Japanese
government recruits its intelligence
department in Its Campaign orxpolitical
and commercial conquest of the Chi
nese empire.
Indistinguishable from any China
man. equipped with every necessity and
unhamperedt by any superhufty, the ex-
student of Tun Wen penetrates yafnen
Official resfdenceo and hoing (mer-
chants effce) on his tour. Of investiga-
tion.
THE SIMPLE LIFE
Rice and water make his only COM
missariats the clothes of day. are like
wise his bed at night. He Is the penui-
innate practftionereof the simple life.
and despite all vituperatfon. this is one
Of the great factors IN success.
came from Tun Wen college full to
the brim with food for thought. A ma
tion.t made war in the way of the
Japanese and is now making use of
identical methods in Its campaign Of
commerce-a nation In the main con-
sisting of a population clean, orderly.
Spartan in its habits. patriotic in every
sense OF the term and immensely in
dustrlous-that nation must inevitably
go still farther and will have no small
influence on the making OF history-not
only the history which Is written in
blood. the tale Of the camp and the
campaign. but also In the records OF
the chancellerie and the market place.
~. B. Harston in New Haven Paila-
dunn.