For this student, my oldest brother who was in Taiwan as an artillery member of the Taiwan Governor-General Office sent me a letter asking me 'to take care of the student called Zenpei OGASAWARA among the new students in the army cadet school this year.
此の生徒のことについて台湾総督府の砲兵部員になって台湾に行っていた長兄から書面が来て「今度幼年学校の新入生の中に小笠原善平という生徒がいる筈だから面倒を見てやってくれ。