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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