New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-05

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- r. dctepd the batteries, and retired As soon a.
80 we're silenced: and when, a reconnaissance,
J Fritish landed three hundred rlfemcn and MY
| irrequhr horse, the whole 81 the Persian host
! marched off, leaving baggage. stores and guns in The
possession of the-ylctOrs YOU cannot cd th"in-the
invaders.
All this however, neither brands the Persans as
a uation Of towards, nor condemns the introduction
Of European tactics among Orientals. The Russo
Turkish wars Of 100 IL and l~2S-9 offer plenty
such examples The principal resistance offered 10
the Russians WAS made by the irregular lcvies both
fro IA the fortified towns and from the mountain prov
iuces Tie regulars, wherever they showed them
selves in the open field, were at once upset by the
Russians and very often away at the first shot;
willie single company Of Amaut rregllars, in a
ra,me at Wanna, succt ssfuly opposed the Russian
siege operations fer weeks together. Yet. during the
late war the Turkish regular army have defeated
tie Russians in every single enga cement from Ote-
niiza and Citate to Ksrs and Ia Ingur.
The fact is that the Introduction Of European
military organization with barbara nations Is far
from being completed when the pew army has been
subGivided, equipped and drilled after the European
fashion. That If merely the first step toward II.
Nor will the enactment Of some European military
code suffice: il Will Ia more insure Eur pean dis
ciplre than EurOpean set Of drill regulations viii
produce, by itself European tactics and strategy.
I he main point, and at the same time the main diff
fCuity is the creation Of body OF Ocers aud SER
geants, educated on the modern European system.
totally freed from the old national preudlces and
"reminiscences in military matters, and ut to IN
spre life into the new formation. This
quircs a long time, and is sure to meet with
the most obstinate opposition from Oriental
ignorance impotence, prejudice, and the vlclSsl
tudes Of fortune and favor inherent In Eastern
courts Sultan OF Shah is but too apt to consider
bis army equal to anything as soon as the men can
dcflp in parade, Wheel, deploy and form column
without getting INTO hopeless disorder And as IL
military schools, their fruits slow in ripenlng
that under the insabillties of Eastern Governments
they can scarcely ever be expected 10 show any.
Even IN Turkey the supply Of educated officers Is
but scaiI'y, and the Turkish army could not have
done at all during the late war, without the great
number of renegades and the European officers IN
It's ranks.
The only arm which everywhere forms an excep-
tCn is tie artillery. Here the Orientas are 50
much at fault and 50 helpless that they have to leave
tie Whoc management f. their European instructors.
lie ctntcqucnce is that as III Turkey, so i'll Persia,
tie artillery was far ahead OF the infantry and
cavalry.
That under these circumstances the Arglo-Indian
army, the oldest of all Eastern armies organized on
the european system, the only one that is subject
not to an Eastern, hut AN exclusively European gov
eTnment, and ofiiccTcd almost entirely by Europe
ans-hat this army, supported by strong reserve
~ British troops and powerful navy should easily
TspeTse the Persian regulars, is but matter OF
course. The reverse will do the Pcrslans the more
coed the more signal il was They will now see,
as the Turks have seen before that European dress
and paradedri is no taisnan in itself, and may he,
twenty wears hence the PersiaDs viii turn out
respectable as the Turks did i'll their late victories.
Tie troops which conquered Bushire and NOLAN.
merah will, il is understood, be at once sent to
China. There they will find different enemy. No
attempts at European evoutons, but the irregular
arraysof Asiatic masses will oppose them there. Of
these they no doubt will easily dispose; but what if
the Chnese wage against them national war, and If
barbarsm be INSCRIPTIONS enough to use the only
weapons which it knows how to WELD
There is evidently different spirit among the
Chinese row to what they showed in the war of
1910 to 40 Then, the people were quiet: they
left the Emperors soldiers to fight the invaders,
and submitted after defta with Eastern fatalism
to the power of the enemy. But now, at least
in the southern provinces to which the contest has
SO far been confined the mass of the people take an
active, nay fanatical part in the struggle against
the foreigners. They poison the bread of the Eu-
ropean community at Hong Kong by wholesale,
and with the coolest reconciliation. A few loaves
have been sent to LIebg for examination. He
found large quantities of arsenic pervading all parts
Of them, showing that it had already been worked
into the dough. The dose, however, was so strong
that il must have acted as an emetic, and thereby
cOuDteracted the effects of the poisoD.) They go
with hidden arms on board trading steamers aud,
when on the journey, massacre the crew and Eu-
ropean passengers and seize the bat. They k'dnap
ard Hill every foreigner within their reach. The
very coolies emigratng to foreign countries rise IN
mutny, and as If by concert, on board every emf
grant ship and fight for its possession and, rather
than surrender, 90 down To the bottom with IT, or
perish in its flames. Even out of China, the Chinese
colonsts the most submissive and meek of subjects
hitherto conspire and suddenly rise in nightly nsur
rcction. as at Sarawak; or, as at Singapore, are
held down BY main force and vigilance only. The
pratical policy of the British Government has caused
this universal outbreak OF all Chinese against all for
| egrers, and marked it as war OF determination.
" hat is All army to do against people resOrting
| Ia such means Of warfare Where how far, Is it
| to penetrate into the enemys country, how TO
maintain itself there CiviliZatOn-mOngers who
throw hot shell on deenSeess city and add rape 10
| murder may call the system cOwardly, barbar0uS,
atrocous but what matters it to the Chinese fiji be
| only successful Since the British treat them
barbariaDs they cannot deny to them the full
| leneft of their barbarism. If their kidnappngs
| surprises, midnight maSsacres what we call cow
ardy the civization-mongers should not fokget that
according 10 their own showing they could not stand
against European means Of destruction with their
ordinary means Of warfare.
In short, instead OF moralizng on the horrible
atrocities of The Chinese, ds the chiyalr0us English
press does, We had better recognize that this is
war pro oris It .Jocis popular war for the main
teDance of Chiuese nationality with all its over
bearing prejudice, stupidity, learned ignorance and
pedautc barbarian if you like, but yet popular
war. and in o popular war the means used by the