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Show CHINESE SOLDIERS DID WELL H An Englishman's Testimony, Showing How Brave They Are. J - H When Great Britain took Wchllal- Wet on tho coatt ot China, she pur 1 sued her usual policy and organized H a company of nnttvo soldtors, with H British officers In command, snys H Mary Porter Gamowcll, in The Cbau- tatiqunn, When tho allies met tho 1 Chlncso Imporlrl army In hard-fought H battles around Tientsin and finally H stormed and took tho city In tho sum- H liter of 1000, preparatory to tho H murch on Peking, the Chinese troops, H officered by British gentlemen, fought H shoulder to shoulder with tho Brit The fight over, ono day somo ono -bbI talking carelessly mndn tho usual B claim that tho Chlncso nro cowards, 1 whereupon an officer, who had led J that valiant band of British-uniform cd Chinese, apoko for his mon with H all tho ardor of British love ot fair play. Ho said: "I hold that when men follow their leaders up n bullet-swept street, and H right over tho very barricades from which tho bullets aro vourlng, thoy aro no cowards; and that Is what our Chinese troops In British uniform |