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201
Q.
The virtual command of
this squadron is belirved to be entrusted
(auder
lo
a Chinese Admiral,) to au
Officer who has served in the German Navy. A considerable number of Germans and other Europeans, with
probably zome Auerican Officers, have 34 lately ben employed, expeccially by
-Li-Hung - Chang, in drilling
Chinese crews and gunners.
the
Admiral Courbet's
3.
equadron now blo
blockading
Formosa,
is much more powerful in the
to than
aggregate
Chinese
any force that the __ can send against it; for it
Consists
consists, according to the latest accounts, of
three ironstad frigates, five corvettes, five +
cruisers And
1 four or five gunboak.
Nevertheless, the most competent judges. ~ think that the fast and heavily-
- armed cruisers of the Chiuose Itret,
especially those built in England by Sir B. Armstrong, if skilfully handled,
on the
may inflict serious damage French ships, if a
ships, if attacked separately.
The result will, of
mainly
On
course, depend.
the account of drill,
...
discipline, and steady courage, which
the foreign Naval Officers
aud
Gunnery Instructon have been able