Toshiyoshi KAWAJI of Daikeishi (head of the police department) twenty-four patrol officers, and others, on the pretext of returning for the purpose of searching for information in the prefecture, were sent to Kagoshima to bring about a collapse of Shigakko, as well as the estrangement of Saigo and the Shigakko.
大警視川路利良らが24名の巡査を、県下の情報探索・私学校の瓦解工作・西郷と私学校を離間させるなどの目的で、帰郷の名目のもと鹿児島に派遣する。