Show tho naval resources of china the ships have their various stations at the treaty ports and are un iler the supervision of alie port admiral of the place where located there is however a general admiral but he is entirely subordinate to the officials of the dockyard of signals by means of which communication muni cation between the ships can be maintained has been arranged at the present time the largest part of the fleet Is commanded by young men who were trained upon a sailing bark the tienwei Kien wei commanded by captain tracy of the english navy and who afterward proceeded upon a cruising voyage to singapore manila and japan in the steam corvette yang woo under the guidi ance of anglish naval instructors these young men are nearly all natives of either iho Kwan tung or provinces they have attained proficiency in navigation and gunnery and their efforts to organize the chinese navy have been attended with great results the writer can vouch for several of these embryo chinese nel bons eons inasmuch as he has made levs eral passages in the gunboats gun boats under their command prior to assuming captains duties they all kiiss through trials as first and second lieutenants the vessels were anally commanded by chinese who bore excellent reputations as coast pilots steering the ships from point to point on the coast but never losi ing sight of land gentlemen tire being gradually supplanted by the trained men tho hands of abo captains are somewhat tied by the manner in which naval laffaira are administered in china each mandarin who has some hanger on round the ports senda candidates for nil positions even to those of cook and sweeper sw peper on board the ships the captains of course are still under the spelt of the old custom which cannot be yet removed and they have to drill te into ship ways ohp captains s alanes range from up to per month their allowances with which to find the ship in oils paints blocks rope and all requisites except coal gariea according to the size of their command A ves sels allowance would be from to 1000 according to her on nazo should any be detached as guard ships ab treaty ports the wear and tear is nothing then bo allowance lines the captains pockets cainas chinas vessels are good and their arsa ments excellent it needs is men to command cpr sailors discipline is lax although bravery is common among tho men who are ft oin the maritime pro vincos and three fourths of whom have served upon foreign and ships and are acquainted with nautical usages it would be invidious to make any upon tho part china may play in a naval engagement but foreign nations in the event of war would not find victory in as easy anthoy found it in 1800 and 1861 Callor nian fur july |