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for this plan is this. The inc creased strength of companies aduits of a smaller staff of costly compray officers, which in turn aduité grving these officers double pay. The

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of success, because the general run of English officers, having handled Chinese troops under fire, have a prejudice against four soldaty qualification, and are anyhow too influenced by national bias and class prejudices to be suitable for the delicate pioneering work forming, for the first time in the history of the English Stomy,

the ends new material of native Chinese into well-brained and loyal English.

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