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Show CHINESE BEING SENT Til FRAWT Canadian Pacific Liner Brings Over 2,500 Men for Army Laborers. MANY MORE TO COME Men Go to France Under Contract Con-tract Many Work in Munitions Mu-nitions Factories. SEATTLE, Wash., April 10. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia, on her last trip to Vancouver from the Orient, brought 2,500 Chinese coolies, men of fine physique, for service serv-ice with the entente armies in France. It is said that many more coolies will bo brought to Vancouver and are to be shipped by rail to the Atlantic coast and thence by transport to France. Those men are not to be used as soldiers, but as army laborers. labor-ers. They will be especially valuable in making trenches. Early in the war the French experimented experi-mented with Chinese from Saigon as employes in munitions factories, and found their work satisfactory. Tho men went to France under contract, and the French government provided for their families and contracted to return them to China at the end of a stipulated period. There was a crusade cru-sade in China, alleged to have been instigated by Germans, against Chinese Chi-nese being permitted to go to Europe for service with the allies, but the Chinese government took no action. It was predicted, when China broke relations re-lations with Germany, that the Chinese Chi-nese government would encourage the use of Chinese laborers by the allies. "- V-UUI1CO 1UUUCU rll. VilUWUH'l WCIU embarked at a British port in northern north-ern China. The Chineso wear a standard uniform and rations are Issued Is-sued to them the same as to enlisted men. |