Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-02 | Page 5 | Guns Take Place of Bows and Arrows in China

GUNS UNS TAKE PLACE OF BOWS AND ARROWS IN CHINA Port Townsend Wash Dec J IThe The steamship Glenogle arrived from the Or Orient OrIent yesterday According to Oriental papers a high official of toe the Chinese gov government has memorialized memorialised the throne to publish h an aft illustrated book showing the sufferings of oC the court sustained during its memorable morable me flight from Pekin and that Ute the book Mok se circulated throughout China so 10 that the people of ot Ute the empire can see what they were responsible for tor in coun countenancing the Boxer uprising and that it will wi 1 I serve as II a warning to them not to place in such ucb a humiliating po O position again aPin As a reactionary effect of the I movement large numbers of Chinese at atI I are becoming I Christians C l i The bow and arrow has ceased r to be an official army weapon in China Accord to the Press an aft Imperial edict was Issued Oct S abolishing bew and substituting the gun The edict edt t wa was read lad for the first time at an ex examination examination of a large number of oC candi dates da for positions position In the military de department department f at Canton