will acknowledge that he sees it;
there lies the root of
t
the whole matter.
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fhat impenetrable pride which
makes China perfect, her Emperor rule the world, all
other nations tributary!
on so well for conturies?
honce why change what has gona
Our policy towards China
hoa baan and is that of the Directors of the East India
Company in its early days before Clive took the mongure
of the Oriental; we have never realised that Ching is
an
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merely inordinately larwe and corrupt Oriental Kinedora,
and as such ought to be treated politals but firmly, as
we have treated other far better fighting Oriontal races.
Will a Chinaman make a soldier? I believe
that with effective discipline, careful training, proper
care, and honest treatment, you can bring him to such a
point that he would be troublesaw to an Buropean force,
but I don't believe that any larro force could be pro-
i dùcod which would be oqual to an European, say En-lish,
Russian or Geran forco, è as large. The sailors,
-
who flucht well at the Yalu and at Wei-hai-voi are mostly
ht
But
Pao-chest and Shantẳng ran whose fathers and grandfathers
live of lived by boating and piracy, consequently they
have sonto hereditary naval and fighting instincts.
the Chingman as a modern soldier, is as yet untriod, we
cannot feet a line anyshore (not avon through Gordon's
army where most of the fighting was done by European550
nor through Tanquin) to enable us to say for cortain
whether he will or will not make a soldier: arguing from
other races living in a similar climate he ought to, but
bayond that we cannot ge.
Von Hannakan'a scheme fell through, was revived
but finally collapsed a month ago; he had colleetað some
30ash-bucklers here as officers, and several others vere
on the way, but these are all to be diamic30d, or
stopped from coming, he bus just married Dotring's
daughter and says he is off to Europe for good as zoon
as peace is mide, the split was owing to his insisting
(which the high and haughty Calestial could not brock)
apan having chief command and control of the money, and
rightly so, for an inferior and fairly honest foreigner
is a botter eœmander than the best Chingran; there areo
grave suspicions that Yon ilanneken has of late bean making spanicśne Money by roing into the armsment svindles with
Dating & Handl & Co.
Baron Sternberg, as you will have soen, wont to
Wanchurio sarly in November for a fortnight, and since
than he has been here or at Poking, where he is Secralary
of Bagation.
thus:
The supply of rice comes to Poking by 300 or
bé the Grand Canal to Tiontsin thenes up the Peinn to
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