The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
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A detailed account of the vile, in- human manner in which the Japanese conduct their secret work in foreign lands is contained ill a report written a short time ago by Amleto Vespa, who for four years acted under dureSs as secret agent of Japan in Manchuria. Although he was of Italian birth, Vespa went to China as a child and became a Chinese citizen, attached to the staff of Chang Tso-lin, the Governor of Manchuria who was brutally mur- dered when the Japanese blew up the train on which he was returning to his home in Harbin.
 Chief Unknown To Agents
 According to VeSpa, no more than three or four men ever have access to the Chief of the Japanese Intel ligence Service in a foreign land and even they do not know his name or rank. Through these three or four men he issues his orders, and they in turn act as counter spies against each other, so that the Chief may have double or triple check on the information they bring in, and on the way they carry out his orders. But, through these men and their agents, the tentacles of the system spread in a network through a vast area and thousands who are thus employed do not know that they are in the service of the Japs.
 Vespa was taken before the Chief of Intelligence to receive his in- structionS. In his first interview, he reports, the Chief said to him: You are the only person to whom I give the right to walk straight into my office without asking permission or being announced. I do not give you this permission because I trust you, but because you are natral- ized Chinese citizen, and as such l can have you shot at any time. Be- sides, we hold your family as guar anty that you will perform your duty faithfully"
 Spies Adopt Chinese Names
 The Japanese spies do not hesi- tate to adopt Chinese names and secure Chinese Identification papers to hide their identity. Thousands have done that in Manchukuo and China and probably other thous- ands have done it in the United States. It is difficult for the un- initiate to tell the two races apart. Others profess to renounce their nationality and religion and to be- come members of Christian churches to further their schemes. A notor- ious case was that of Nakamura, a bestial Japanese spy who adopted the name Konstantin Ivanovich and embraced the Russian Orthodox re- ligion, the better to assist in kidnap- ing rich Russians and torture them until large sums for ransom were paid.
 Thieves, pickpockets, gunmen and narcotic peddlers are employed by the scores. In Manchukuo at the very time when the Lytton Conlmis- sion of the League of Nations was in Harbin to study the situation, Ves- pa says that notorious bandit who took the name of Ying, Shadow had 1,5O0 blood thirsty henchmen whose job was to keep Russians and Chinese as vel las native Manchur- ianS from reaching the commission to present their side of the case against the Japanese occupants. Un- der orders of the Japanese Chief of Intelligence "all persons who were suspected of being liable to make the truth known to the commission" were arrested.
 Japs FOresee World Conquest
 On one of his missions for the Chief, to investigate the blowing up of a train that had not been "au- thorized," Vespa met a Japanese Colonel of gendarmes who said to him: ITO be an officer of the Japanese army is the greatest honor one can receive. remember when used to walk around in the streets of Washington wearing my uniform, everybody looked at me with envy because they knew that with all their riches, their palaces and fifty-story buildings they could never deserve the honor of reaching the height of being Japanese of- ficer. The Japanese Army is the most perfect, the most glorious, the greatest organization in the world. It is the only army which has never lost a battle, and which has de- feated the greatest empires of the world, China and Russia. And we are going to do 1t again. In few years the Japanese Army will con- quer China, Russia, America, Eng land, France. The entire Pacific must be Japanese, from North Pole to South Pole. /. America will pay dearly for having closed her doors to us; but we shall get tns and when we do, it will be as conquerors and masters"