The Archive · 1923

The Volunteer Corps

My residence is in what -is popularly allied to as the "Scholars' Quarter" in Honge Ward, but I became disgusted with the barbarities perpetrated by the so-called volunteer corps." I almost despaired of the Japanese ever attaining the "culture of the gentleman." If Captain Amakasu could have distinguished Socialism from Anarchism and Communism, he would have known that the liberties thab might be taken by a single anarchist with the established institutions of Japan could affect in no wise - their integral interests. The Captain's motive for killing. Ohsugi, the Anarchist, and his flippant mistress deserves sympathy, but there ig no. call for any movement

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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