Show THE FLOWER OF THE CHINESE ARMY ry r y w j 1 Great surprise h has been expressed by the allied forces that they have en ea such stubborn opposition from the new In their advance toward Peking hut But when It ta is that for tor years the Chinese have been reedy I tag I Instruction In military tactics from foreigners Maud Germans Germani and aad RUI Rua clans Ia and have bave been Importing vat vast supplies of the latest types type of gun and aad Improved repeating rifles th there need bs no ta cause for surprise It Is II said that the bulk of the Chinese ann army equipped t with spears PM sod nd lances laneel bows bow and arrows arro ant and even Ih the Imperial guard that surrounds the emperor II I mainly armed with tn these obsolete weapons But nUl there I k now a suspicion that Johe Joh has baa been playing upon the credulity of hi his foes and that while he has bu been giving out tor publication Ih these stories of up he be has bal been filling up his arsenal nl and armories and drilling the bet best of his hta soldiery The Th wr war taught him a lesion perhaps sat ad though IW stow to learn In other way a he m may have been benel benefited b by the result Ull of that war r ot of deft defeat r f China and ever evor sine lIace ma may have bave been beell preparing for the tb next neat great struggle |