From Our Own Correspondent, Tokio, Apr. 10, His stock in trade a few batter. ed books and some old now: Papers; his pupils the children of beggars; and his remuneration proportion of what his mondtfcant-students get from gone row hearted citizens, Shunsal Anzai, 8 former samurai, conducts what is perhaps the strangest. rehoe! the warld. There is no classroom; Afere are m0 forms, desks or seats. The unique educational institution is located in the midst of a dense forest in the Hokkaido, Japan's "northernmost. island, ig forest that is carefully avoided by the inhabitants of the island be: cause of its being also the a ode of fierce bears Ju the days when Japan was still encased like aa ai its shell, Anzai sported two swords and 'a top-knot. With the abolition of feudalism and the armies fand retinues of feudal days, this samurai who still professes the [greatest contempt for, the rifle and machine gun on the ground
ungallant and cowardly, turn that these methods of warfare are his back ona warvior's' life and decided to devote his days to the education of the most neglected inthe land.
For some time he laboured in the slums of Tokio, but. social relief bureaux and municipal aid societies invaded his domain He then trekked northwards and phon "ho, came to the, Tlokkaido forests and saw its beggar denizens, he decided that he would establish himself there as the schoolmaster of this queer colony.
From time to time Shunsai Anzai makes trips to the nearest village, principally to lay hold of discarded newspapers and books. He has 2% pupils. Those villagers who have paid the forest. beggar colony a visit say that the children are being well instructed by the ex-warrior Anzai On the evening of the April a robbery was committed in Tsi fan. Between 9 and 10 o'clock three men entered. a coalyard some distance outside the East Suburb gate. They carried revolvers and held up the staff, do-manding dollars from the frightened inmates," The three men Wwere dressed like students, and proceeded to seech the office. They were able to find over $70 in silver and coppers, and made off before any alarm could be raised,
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