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Show fSANESE SECRET SERVICE imty gREDERIC J. HASKIX. COPYRIGHT. 1908 'fiI,allC5f Government maintains BLcrct system which for thorough or-Hj?ation or-Hj?ation tuul offcctivcncas is n mar-'j mar-'j Jivery few days the newspapor (lis- Hhcs give necoiints of some new kKiloit of the ineinbcrs of this corns. SEm jf nil of these reports cannot oe JHtetantintcil, their frequency and tho Kl territory covered would make it K, tbflt the activities of these spies Eend to tho furthermost ends of the Hrih Oue ilnv thfty -'ire heard from Bltome remote' province of Cliina and 'Be next in fni-ou Chile. American Kr officers assert that the system of :feonnen in the Philippines has been 'Eestensive that the officials in Tokio rKoir moro about the islands than the iBir department in Washington. It has Ken boon stated that agents of the Bipgne'sc war office, in the .guise of rail-Kjt3 rail-Kjt3 section laborers or servants in lEilies residing in the locality, are Etioncd at every largo railroad Bridge E? the Pacific const. While this may WL mere rumor, the damage such nn Rnranized force could do to transporta-Kod transporta-Kod in the event of hostilities breaking Kills easy to comprehend. Not Ne7 at Game, filial the Japancso arc not .new at mU( ganic was shown by an incident Efcicb occurred recently in China. An inorican plrysician attached to ono of Kg miBsionnry hospitals located in an .Ki'ccesslblo province was aroused lata Ke night by two .lapancso mon, who 'Bcstcd that he accompany them to ,K bedsido of a man who was dnngor-'iKfir dnngor-'iKfir ill. Tho doctor rapidly' donnod .HjhdotliM an hurried away with Ken. The patient prpvel to be a Kpancso dressed in Chinese, clothing, Kd at first glance tho professional man ,Kk that the Bufferer was beyond rc-(Krrry. rc-(Krrry. The .Iaj)anoso requested the 'Hjysician to revive the dying man, if ;Kiblc, and they immediately set about 'KkfaK a long statement from him. Hie physician could not. understand any-King any-King that was said, excopl the names ,H;.iowns, rivers and of prominent Chi-'Kj'c Chi-'Kj'c citizens. Tho roiteration of those iHWie names, as well as the anxiety (Hithc .rapnncsc to secure a complete Hutemcnt, made it plnin to the American-that the doomed man wns a spy. p'e remarkable purt of the affair was Wtii the dying Japanese liad a tull-jKown tull-jKown queue, and when speaking to Wit doctor or the servants, spoke pcr-mit pcr-mit Chinese. The fact that this man Kd been a spy long enough to grow a .tBfcue indicates that the Japanese so-mjl so-mjl sfrvioc is not a new branch of IKi'rcrnment work, H$- Will Do Anything. KTnnniunrable nicidems have occurred Wiich show that high-class Japanese Kllinclv do the most meninl work in filer to seturo information their Gov-rSniont Gov-rSniont desires. The foreigners have ('fine club in Yokohama, to which no fPjtivc can belong. During the war Kill Russia this place was the render. iojis for business men of various nn-penality, nn-penality, many of whom had important nnsactions with one or both of the Kligcrent powers. There wns natur-y'a natur-y'a good ileal of interesting gossip Achunged there, and later it was found Sat none of this had boon hint on the mrt of the Japanese authorities. The Knngcr of the club had a number of wrmnesc boys about the place as serv-I serv-I pts, and during tho progress of the liar soveral of these were drafted for llpricc at the front. As they loffc for Iptnchuria, where the climate is cold, jjpc manager presented' each of them Ifath a heavy, warm sweater. Toward .'t end of the campnign a servant to whom ho was particularly attached on account of his, aptness and reliabilitv served notion that he had been summoned sum-moned to the front. Thereupon the manager purchased a particularly fine sweater as a present for his favorite, imagine the consternation around the club next morning when tho servant appeared in the uniform of a Japanese navnl officer. In order to hear what was being said around the place, he had worked there for months in the capacity capa-city of a menial. Jle thanked the manager man-ager for. his kindness in presonT.iug the f ",r9 sweater, left his compliments for various club members who had been generous gen-erous with tips and went down to sea in his ship. Work in Honolulu. A similar incident happened in Honolulu. Hono-lulu. A prominent native lady employed em-ployed a good-looking voung .Japanese as a servant. He claimed to lie a cook, but it was soon apparent that he had' little or' no experience in that line of work. Although -he was a failure as a cook, he seemed so agreeable and anxious anx-ious to please that Uie lady determined to koop nim in her etnplov and give him something to do. One "day while the lady waH in Honolulu she had occasion to go into a large .Japanese bank. As she entered one door, her servant, who did not know she -wns there, came in from another entrance. He was instantly in-stantly surrounded bv the bnuk officials, who treated him with Eiieh fullsomo respect re-spect and deference that it did not take tho surprised woman lone to ijmler-stajid ijmler-stajid -whv hor servant, could not cook. She was harboring a high-class 3py under un-der hor roof. As soon ns the make-believe make-believe servant, saw his mistress, he curtly dismissed t.hose who surrounded him and left the bank. Being curious to know what the fellow's mission was, the lady did not. dismiss him immediately, immedi-ately, lie acoined anxious to cultivate the good graces of 'the natives, and it was suspected that he might hnvc been commissioned to sound local feeling on the prospect of Japanese rule in Hawaii. Tho fact that he turned the conversation conversa-tion to this subject many times gave ground for this opinion. Country Peddlers as Spies. An American hemp buyer in lhc Philippines began to get reports from his assistants in various parts of the islands, first in ono localit3' and then in another, of two Japanese caiuVy peddlers ped-dlers who acted in a suspicious manner. man-ner. Oue was a man of advanced .years and the other a 3-011l.l1. Upon entering a town they immediately opened a shop and attracted many customers by offering offer-ing good candy ai. a lower price than it could be sold at a profit. Only one of them stayed in tho store at a time, tho other mixing with the people on the outside. Finally they came to the place where the hemp buyer had his headquarters. He watched thorn close-y close-y and found that they could each sffcuk several languages, and that they systematically followed the windings of all the roads leading to the town. Their movements caused him to conclude con-clude that thev were map makers.- Fishermen Make Soundings. About the same time two Japanese men who were fishing in the bay at Manila attracted attention. There was notliiug about their appearance to indicate in-dicate that they were oilier than what they pretended to be. They lived in poor quarters and sold their catch regularly reg-ularly in the market, but the manner in which they shifted about from onc-plncc onc-plncc to another finally caused them to be brought under surveillance. It was then discovered that when no one was near they wero engaged in making , soundings, evidently for tho purpose j of accurately charting the harbor for ! the war office in Tokio. Check Upon Foreigners. A newspaper correspondent "in Yokohama Yoko-hama had an experience which il Ins trnted the perfect system of keeping check on the whereabouts of foreigners in the country, lie was invited to the police station to see an expert instruct ing the raw recruits for tho police force in the science of ,jiu ;jitsu. The chief of police told the correspondent that he would havo some facts typewritten in fOnglish and would send them around to tne hotel next day. The correspond ent had moved that morning from one hotel to another, and as ho. was leaving the police station he happened to think of this and returned to leave his new address. Tho chief smiled and turned to Ihe register, showing the foreigner tho corrected address after his name. The system was so complete that the removal had been entered at headquarters headquar-ters almost before the Iugcage had arrived ar-rived at the new place. Spies in Germany. A recent exposure revealed the clever clev-er manner in which the Japanese war office had been keeping in touch with military matters in Germany. Oue of ' the trusted agents of tho Mikado's , bureau of secret information learned the barber's trade, and in some man- ner secured a place in n -large military 1 club in Berlin. Hern ho came into per- I sonal contact with the leading military . lights of the Kaiser's realm. By lis- j leuing 10 the confidential gossip around him he learned many military secrets and found that the real opinion opin-ion of many prominent German officials in regard to ,la pa lies matters was quite the contrary to what had boon express- , ed through diplomatic .channels. When j the real character of ibis clever little Oriental wns disclosed, there was a ! great commotion in Gorman military I circles. Xo more Japanese barbers I need apply in Uerliti. Will Not War With All. While the activity of the Japanese 1 secret scrvico representatives in many i latitudes is unquestioned, it. does not ' necessarily follow that Japan inlends ; to declare war with every nation upon j which it is fonud spying, or upon nnv 1 of them, for thai matter. It is a good i thing for every government to be ns well posted about its neighbors as possible, pos-sible, and as a mailer of fact, it is a most difficult matter to keep military swots nowadays. However, other na lions do no go quite ns far in c.--pionage as the Japanese, nor do they assign citi'.ens of such high standing to such ordinary tasks. If the American Ameri-can government should determine to pattern after the .Japanese, and to go them one belter on their system, we might one dav hear of the Honorable William H. Tnft taking obncrvntious in Tokio in the guise of a fai wrestler, wrest-ler, or of Gcnornl J. Franklin Bell impersonating im-personating a jinrikisha man in the btrcels of Kobe. , Tomorrow Japanese 1 mmigrat ion VicwE. |