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Show RECRUITING OFFICERS Chinese Reformers Want Americans to Command Their Army. PORTLAND, Or., Nov.. 24. The Ore-goalan Ore-goalan prints the following today: Officers- for the Chinese reform army are being recruited from the National Guard of this State, and it is said that already about twenty-five members, some of them locally prominent, have made application. Trained officers to the number of 8000 are being sought by the reform association. ' All who make application are bound to secrecy. But it is learned that service ser-vice Is promised for five years, that transportation will be furnished, and that the pay is to be 20 per cent greater than that of American officers in the tropics. The applicants have been told that the army they are to command will number 150,000. |