CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 204

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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