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For some time past, the
Chinese Government has spent.
-very large sume in the purchase of shipe of war built in Europe, and of vast stoves of cannon rifles, and warlike munitions all Kinds. More recently, the
• of
Chinese authorities have become
alive to the com
comparative uselessness
of the best modern armo in the
Seamen
a
hands of undisciplined and soldiers. Consequently, considerable number of German, American, and other foreign
Officers
Officers has been employed
army
in
and
drilling the native
It is said by competent.
Navy.
observers that the people
are
beginning to take readily to the
Naval and Mi
that
Military service; the recruits undergo the fatigues
of drill and the restraints
of
discipline with dooility, and oven, in some cases, with patriotic ardour, that the Chinese officers
are
improving in efficiency; and that throughout the
C
mass
of the nation
there is being awakened a warlike
and