Show THE PECULIAR CHINESE ARK Major A H J Cavendliii late mill t try attache with Hit chlnti army sale that In many rtpeclg the Olotlal army presents a curious example of the unflltnl In I Its broad outline tin chcme li simple and lulled III llt ccvn > 111 I but null the characteristic levy l of detail of tin Mongol In inlnutln Ir li I exceedingly omilfi Kvery Province hat Itt separate Army The lIer gives I 00 Interesting at count of then forces and proceeding 10 General remark mayor Much 1 of the utter Inefficiency if Chin Chi-n army It l explained by the native Sol Do not UM good steel to t make a nail nor Ink a rood limn to make a oldler which If I moil thoroughly ed up to On almost every octailon In IMIS the Chhieit troop rrfuied to stand up to the deipleel Japonaksm Small wn star when of Hit hundred at thouixnil whn Vince iff have been Ml lilt < with foreiKii weapon not out In MOW has been taught their proper upia Mutkelry and artillery roll li I limited generally 1 general-ly to handling tin weapon and In mructlon In tho u > t of Hlle and rttld gun If I not thouiht ntcetiary Nay It to Oppoted In January IM Several thousand men had bttn collected at fhnnhoi kuan under Uir ial Vutaclienir t rtenforc the army In Maniliurla Nnr Cities and Held Count had been nerved nut and the torn nai to mote earl 1 a February jet on Jan M tho men nail their linn for the first tun and barely t per cent of lilts on a target MO jama distant ensued An for the suite not afoul a-foul knew how to load them or elfin a el-fin and when at length one wai fired with the nll of the foreigner present the ammunition Was 10 defective tint lIhlllb tile gun manq leld for ittilia yard the shell only traveled HO Yet these men wet lent mirth to fight nt Tlenchuangtla without further training train-ing Instruction by a foreigner bating been haughtily lefuieil Tu he l a oldler Is I tu loe cate 1 In Clil na to Imtllx foreign notion Is I woue Hill and Incur Inn hatred nnd luipl l clon of the civilian who In reality govern gov-ern the army and navy au much no that tu be a graduate of the foreign action In I an atmiiit certain bar to promotion In Ihe military and other Mhoutt ee labllilied by Sir Robert Hart and the viceroy at Peking ont tlnewhtr the lludent lint to be bribed to nllend to as lo compensate Ibm for Hit social disadvantages of foreign education It WO add to thl Halt natural contempt for foreigner Ingrained In the Chinese nature we have Patent causes fur the willful lailnee and Ignorance of clan ctra which are truly appalling f Alig that they should add oorlI am fill A general near Iher being Ordered to keep a sharp lookout for the Jap4 note 7 village lending waa hourly I txrtct fl I illl lot br aiklnic the nllMay tiallnn matter to wnl two coolle to I the Coast to look for Hit tntmyl Ilia wa Hit plan of armlnic his ntn with box of pepper to be thrown In the fact of the Jar > n name who while engaged In sneezing would all U stain Ly the CWnit closer minI II stems a Illxl on the human ram lo My that out of a manhood of JOOOOOOTO of China a body of good toldltr cannot can-not too inally and with the exempt l t of the army which ties Leon tolvr l from the Ktypllan fellaheen It may bt tire > mature to call II lmwllle I Hut Chlra htntlf cannot tlo It The very beat human hu-man material and the moil elaborate Instruction would bt well under the existing native official who steadily re mists all reform In Mi maladmlnlitrt > linn Nevertheless the docile soldiers 1 and lallor of China have never ret had a thane of showing under proper man aitmtnt what are their rtal cop UII tit Should they under iuropan lu liallame ever prove thonlllv In any numbers to Too nf real military value the yellow terror may not be a nitre fir front of the uptrhtaleil brain |