The Washington times., 1921-03-27

He has served as consul at Vancouver,
as consul general at Ottawa, and was
ponsul general in New York when he
Yes ordered to Honolulu last sum-
mer. Under him usdeubteAly IL .
civil espieaaxe systens. volunteer and
efneial, which constantly keeps Tokyo
Informed to the last detail Of Geo.
nemie. political anA military condi-
tfons On the islaHds.
JAP LABORERs EMPLOYED
BY AMERICAN ARMY.
Japanese labor. skilled and un-
skilled, is employed by our army in
its construction work. At times as
many as 800 men have been 80 en-
ployed.
Japanese servants work in the
households of every officer of our
army and navy stationed on Oahu.
In addition. more or less myster-
ious Japanese DIRE constantly coming
from Tokyo. They come as "inspec-
tors" investigators" as merchants
who do not go into business, as
teachers who do not take positions
as teachers, as obscure individuals
who are found to be bureau officials
in Tokyo or army or navy officers,
active or on the reserve list. They
lose themselves in the japanese set
Elements and we learn nothing of
their activities and see nothing of
them till they emerge to return to
Tokyo.
Last August the Japanese cruiser
Kasuga arrived at Honolulu. While
in port two men mysteriously left
the ship and disappeared. There is
reason to believe they are generals Of
the japanese army and that they are
still in the islands. The Kasuga
cruised on to San Francisco, ar
riving September Z, and there
Lieut.. Comdr. NJ. Hibino left the ship,
evadisg our Immigration and customs
men and presenting NO passport. He
secretly conferred with Consul Gen
eral Okta and other prominent jap
anese, and secretly visited Los An
geles. where on October rs and again
On October %, be conferred with
General Oyama. About that date
Tokyo newspaper falsely reported
hin to be back I'm Tokyo. Instead,
he went On to New York and sailed for
London.
JAP OFFICER CAUGHT
skETCHING DEFENsEs.
A lieutenant Of a japanese cruiser
that visited Honolulu during the strike
last spring was caught sketching the
approaches to our fortifications at
Diamond Head. He admitted his iden-
tity and was sent under guard back to
his ship. Officers OF this same ship
were detected as they came by Dia-
mond Head busy on the deck with
cameras and range-hnders turned on
that fortified headland.
A Chilean cadet ship, the Lautaro,
came into Honolulu port mysteriously
last October, from Yokohama. Osten-
sibly she had cargo Of COAL but IT
was reported that In fact she had
arms and ammunition concealed that
were to be smuggled ashore in the
islands. She was watched day and
night. Thirteen Japanese sailors man
aged to get ashore and disappear; our
officials believe there were spies
among them. Finally the Lautaso
sailed aimlessly away. She was fol-
lowed by a number of our submarines
as she cruised along Maui, Lanai AMI
Hawaii. At last. being unable TO
shaLs of the submarines, she headed
out to sea and disappeared.
During our war stamp drive. 1t was
Learned that the Japanese consulate
had 800 agents scattered all over
the islands. A list OF these got into
one Japanese newspaper, and IL was
discovered that some of these agents"
were in our postoffice service, others
were employed on construction work
at our fortifcations, and all of them
In positions enabling them to keep the
consulate fully informed as to every
move made by Americans.
(The third article in this intensely
interesting series will appear In The
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