Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-05
Chinese Students at West Point.

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One hundred and sixty-eight cand-
dates who passed the April and May
examinations have been admitted to
the United States Military Academy.
Forty-two of the 'plebs" were received
On probation, most of them to make up
minor physical deficiencies
Forty-feur States are represented in
the incoming class. New York State
has the most, or Is. There are II Presi-
DENTAL appointees "a cadets were APP
pointed by United States Senators and
the rest are accredited to various Rep
resentatives.
Among those in the new class are
two Chinese, NJ. A. Shu Mou Tao and
T. l.. Wang ting-fen. The two are not
the first from China to enter the Mill
tary Academy. With the class of 1863
were graduated Ying Using Wen and
Ting CHA Chen. Wing was so good a
student that he ranked No. s. in a
class of 103. Ting. however, oil book
learning was the class goat" although
it was said that he was of royal blood,
and that Wing Using Wen was sent
with him to this country as his valet,
CT first gentleman-in -waiting. Both had
attended the Virginia Military Insti-
tute before going to West Point and
seemingly were thoroughly American
lied before their return to the Far
East. Another cadet from the Philip
pines was a member of the new class
He is Luis Salvosa Rada. There are
two other Filipinos here. One of them,
V1ncente Linn, was admitted in 1910,
and will be graduated next June. The
other, Anastacio Ger Quevedo, was adj
mitted a year later and left the acade-
my on Thursday with the members of
his class on two months furlough.
Both are good soldiers and first rate
students.
The "pJebes'' just admitted will live
in breast barracks" until the first
week in July, when they will be assign
ed to the various companies in the bat
talon organization. The new class was
sworn iii iii the presence of the acad-
envy and battalion officers.
Ting-lu Wang ting-fen, who is a cap
tain OF the Chinese army, arrived here
recently, on his way to West Point, to
which he was admitted by special act
of Congress passed in February, 1911.
He went to the home of the Chinese
consul general. Mr.. LII, at 4o6 West One
Hundred and Forty-fourth street. New
York. before continuing on to the Mill
| tary Academy.
The young Chinese soldier is not
| quite % years old, so that he is just
within the West Point age limit for
| first year cadets. He stands about
| feet 6 and has a martial appearance, is
of strikinging serious mien and straight
as an arrow. Coming to America SIX
| months before the outbreak OF the
Chinese revolution which swept away
| the Manehu Government which sent
| him, Captain Wang has bent all his en-
ergies toward learning sufficient Eng
| Iish to enable him to get along at West
| Point, For this purpose lie Went &c
Dean Academy at Franklin, Mass.
and later studied civil engineering al
| Tufts College
He received his early military train
ing at the Ting-Fu Military Acad-
| envy. Graduating at 20 he became al
| instructor at the Shan-Si Government
| Drilling School. Later he was given the
rank of captain i'm the regular army
| because the War Office wished to non
| or his family. His brother, Major Gen
eral Ting-Jerh Wang, is now com
| mander- in-chief of the Chill proVln
| cial army, a modern force of some DO,
| 600 foreign drilled troops.
Early IN 1911 the Manchu Government
asked and received permission from IN
United states to educate two Chinese
| cadets at West Point 1t nominated
| CAPTAIN Wang and Lieutenant M. A
Shu Mou Tao, but the latter is i'll ant
may not take the examinations unit
next year--Houston Daily Post.