| Show I CHINESE official statistics place their 1 follows army as 1 The Eight Banners composed of I Manchus Mongols and the Chinese total 323800 The Emperor is i supposed to review 100000 of these each year at Pekin 2 The ring Ping or National Army numbering 0459 officers and 650000 privates pri-vates I The active army is diyided into 1 The Army of Manchuria 2 The Army of the Centre j and 3 The Army of Tuikestan The Territorial Army The Army of Manchuria is 70000 strong divided into two army corps the I headquarters of one being at Tsitsiliar and the other at Moukdeiu The Army of I I the Centre is 50000 strong with headquarters head-quarters at Kalgan an important town NAV ofPekin TheArmy of Turkestan is in the extreme westejn territories and is not available for use in a war with any I Europeau poX i on account of the disturbed t dis-turbed state of affairs in the West The Territorial Army or Braves is a kind of local militia and can be raised to a strength of 600000 though the peace footing only 200000 Among the various armies are found many weapons of modern make such as the Mauser rifle the Remington rifle and there are found Krupp field guns of eight centimetres diameter |
