Show r I rilE HAYTHEX I Th rYsslonof Chinese for Fines W iJ I Tf u t The inilitaryj desire for flags in China has heveloped into a passion Every fortress intrenched position cam city gate or officers headquarter hal from one to a hundred some of them of one bright solid color but most are arranged in stripes the colors red white and blue being peflerred Were but three stripes used the resemblance to the French tricolor would be almost exact but as they ordinarily use five or I six the similarity of color becomes a mere suggestion When blue is not obtainable ob-tainable black and rarely yellow takes i its place At the camp of the Tsbtsnng tangjreglmentjon pleasant knoll just o tside the walls of KingchunKfoo more than one hundred large flags were i displayed ranged with the precision of the rows in a confield there being one for nearly every white canvass tent in which the soldiers were comfortably installed in-stalled The material used is Manchester Manches-ter cotton brought white and colored by the Chinese As each is about the Size of a common bedblanket and several thousands must be required for the 1000Q troops stationed in and about Hoihowand Kingchowfoo the quantity quan-tity needed is immense and the merchants mer-chants who deal in the goods were prepared pre-pared accordingly There is no doubt thae their number of often unreasonably I unreason-ably increased by the mandarins commanding com-manding the troops that they ma have the squeeze or difference in price since they purchase at a fair rate and charge the government double |