New Military Training for Students: Action Over the Socialist Murder From Our Own Correspondent Tokio, Nov. 11.
Whilst schools and institutions are a crying need in the stricken regions, not excepting the capital, another form of education is receiving the benisons of the authorities, namely military "education," which aims at making students of high schools and colleges attend training camps during vacations instead of taking a year's training in one of the volunteer corps after their schooling has been finished. The nature of this novel ''education" is being kept secret, but the Japanese press declares that special attention will be paid to physical training and to bringing about an_ understanding between these students, the people and the fighting forces. When one remembers that the Vigilantes, whose exploits against unarmed people have been already chronicled in these columns, were mainly from this very class of militarized young men's societies, it would seem far better that this training take the form of impressing on the heroic young men the fact that the Chinese and Koreans are entitled to better treatment and that the hacking down of fleeing refugees is not chivalry. In the meantime, Mr. Maruyama, Chief of the Police Bureau in the Korean Government-General, is busy telling his countrymen means of lectures, illustrated by slides, that the Koreans are not the very inferior race that most Japanese believe them to be. Whether this will have any effect in eradicating the rooted hostility that exists between Japanese and Koreans or of appeasing the Koreans for the wanton slaughter of their compatriots is very doubtful.
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