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rail and road to Shan hai koan and thence to lanchuria,

but no tally is kept of the men, horses or munitions of

h war which go by train; battalions to to Staan Jai kan

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and than some back in a for wooks for no earthly reason,

except the jealousy and suspicion of the nuaserous nome

manders; there is a tendeney to ravart to *rifled

*gingale* (one of which I saw at Chan-chia-van) because

it has been found that confusion and dianppointment have

been occasioned by the fultiplicity of forma of foreim

rifles and ammunition, and, to the everlasting shape of

Germans, the general bud quality of those supplied.

I mentioned sometime are that 30,000 rifles had bean

received from Shanghai by land, many of those have been

sent North, and the remainder of this lot of 100,000

Man/licher rifles are on their way to, or at, Tientsin,

it is almost impossible to get any information on the

supply of arma and wmunition that one caros to report

seriously, she Chinose do not discriminate further than

between gingala, rifles and smoothborea; 14 dan rare

thing to find an officer who can tell you the pattern

rifle or œmunition his mer are arted with.

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of gun,

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The material in man, is maple and good to a

certain extent. The result of the war might be the

awakening of China and the establishment of an army on a

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