Show MADE TARGETS FOR ENEMY chinese soldiers soldier in battle of ping yang all opened parasols parasol when it rained no one who has studied the military methods of china will be surprised to learn that sh eli ells of painted wood have been picked up in the german cone concession at bankow this li is truly chinese chine not so very long ago each soldier was supplied with an oilcloth parasol and a tan fan which he be tucked up his bis sleeve during the battle of ping yang when the rain came on the paril parasols sols were opened and the enemy found the men easy targets especially ally as each one wore a large w white bite disk bearing the number of his regiment on his breast and back at the arsenal at nankin it was once decided to shorten a krupp cannon which had bad arrived arrive d there because it was too long and to make solid shells which would not burst green sprouts were also seen on the logs froni from which gun stocks were to be made but the limit as ane may say was reached at bankow when an austrian warship entered the port and saluted the fort the chinese attempted to return the courtesy but stopped short after five or six discharges As the chinese commander afterward explained when the third artilleryman had bad been killed we do decided to stop firing |