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Show CHINESE MILITARY TACTICS Celestials Planned to Trip Up Foes, Throw Water in Their Faces and Then Cut Off Their Heads. At the beginning of the Chino-Japa-nese war, says a contributor to the Washington Star, one of our military attaches saw a Chinese regiment take the field at a review and go through a very curious performance. The soldiers carried long bamboo poles like fishing rods, and with these they rushed at one another, yelling wildly and making very queer gestures and grimaces. "What's the game?" asked the American. Amer-ican. "That regiment," a Chinese general answered, "is one of our very oldest. It Is now practicing a form of assault that dates from prehistoric times. The Idea is to trip the enemy up with the long wand, throw water in his face nnd, in the midst of his bewilderment nt this extraordinary treatment, to cut off his head." Youth's Companion. |