Show CHINA S NEW ARMY If half of the th reports that come from China ar are true It would be no easy task for the allied armies to march to Pekin again China has a lf o out t of the book of f the Powers She is pro pre 1 ring an army that will give any foe a groat deal of tr trouble uble an English officer who witnessed th the maneuvers or of the Chinese troops at ata a groat encampment said The officers understood their work Md and the men thoroughly dIsciplined showed themselves so strong and en enduring enduring during that in four days of continuous and exhausting labor Jabor scarcely a man fell feU out aut The men availed aUed them themselves selves of every scrap of cover while advancIng and the tho control or of each subaltern over hiS section of the line Une and at o the commanders command rs seemed absolute Of tha th guns employed at the maneuvers 1 saw at balf tn hr action It Is 18 safe to assort assert that better fire could hardly be ImagIned Add to this the of oC an American army officer who is quoted as sayIng China bas baa nearer x a quarter of a million trained troops than and there are aro at least fifty Japan officers serving w with th Ute the ann army as drillmasters The allies could not repot repeat the tho pr per performance of 1900 and march to PekIn unless with a much larger force and after a hard and trying campaign In view of the fact that there seems danger of the tho United States becoming Involved in trouble with China the statements quoted are entitled to earn earnest est eat consIderation China Is last fast a wak awak from her Never again will she have the tho place of honor at th head of at the worlds march marchat of at progress progress but she will soon be In u position where it will be dangerous to despise her or hold her cheaply ly Our little friends the Japs upon whom we poured B large sup supply supply ply of sympathy when they were war warring warring ring With Russia can De be depended upon to keep keep hIn awake And Amid with Uh both Japan nd China op the alert to pro pre prevent vent of trade or of tern I tory b both th Of f tte them In ap a position tr to resist ar the sun of ute tile white man In the Orl ri will wUl near C Its setting |