The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-12-07
WORKING FOR WAR.
China is Engaged in Formidable
Military Operations.
Adopting All Modern Improve
mentS in the Art Of Warfare.

ments in the Art Of Warfare.
Henry Bryos, q regular correspon-
dent of the Paris Figaro, is travelling
in China, and writes for his paper an
account of the preparations for war
that are going forward in the celes-
tial empire. He has devoted much
time and research to the subject, and
what he says must be taken as true.
He writes that the old and childish
method of warfare has been almost
entirely abandoned, and in it's military
and naval departments the country is
becoming thoroughly modernized.
The man who has brought about this
transformation is the Viceroy LII Hong
Tchang. Mr.. Bryos says:
"Since the last Franco Chinese war
the celestials have opened their eyes.
The great sleepy people have become
aroused. Lii Hong Tchang has rudely
shaken off their night covering. He
has undertaken the task of waking
them up thoroughly. He can claim
the honor of having created genuine
soldiers, organized in European style
and armed with the improved modern
rifles
In the imperial military school the
correspondent saw the soldiers drilling
in regular German fashion, under a
German instructor, and marching in
the stiff, heavy, noisy, but automatic
ally precise method of the German
army. He learned that German ar
tiuery officer had been commissioned
by the viceroy to organize a new
army of the north, that another officer
from Berlin was installed at the arsen-
al at Tikon, and that under his direc-
ton Chinese workmen were turning
out shot, shell and shrapnel. M.
Bryos continues:
"China is arming and arming for
midably, and her present aim is to find
within herself the military resources
and the war materials that she was
formerly obliged to procure elsewhere.
She is erecting upon different points
of her immense territory numerous
and important workshops and found
ries, which changed completely the
national character of this country by
modifying it in the European sense.
The city of Han Yang, an insignificant
little place short time ago, has now
become in less than year military
post of the first order, which is design
ed in the future to outstrip all others.
1t is the centre of great works
and gigantic foundries, workshops,
brickyards and rifle factories.
The Krupp works are furnishing the
country with guns of the most modern
invention and deadly power. AT Port
Arthur there are splendid cruisers,
battleships and gunboats built with
all the recent improvements of naval
science. The arsenal of Nankin, which
the correspondent visited, was build
ing artillery for the feet, great guam
titles of guns and rifles for the army,
and was supplied with moulds for
shells. "It is not necessary, he con-
cludes, to enter into further details and
to multiply examples. What have seen
in the centre of China exists also in
the north and in the south. Through
out the empire the manufacture of
arms goes on with feverish activity.
China is working for war, and the
time will soon come when she will
be supplied with armaments equal in
quality and in numbers to those of the
greatest European nations"
If these things are true it is evident
that the war maps of the world must
be changed. With her vast popula-
ton, with tne possibility of putting
into the field an army almost as large
as the combined armies of Europe,
with the unified strength that COM
mon religion, a common emperor and
a common country would give to this
vast body of men, China was sufficient
ly feared as she was. st. Louis Re-
public.
A Horse Kills a Cougar.
J. p. Jones, who lives near Perha-
ma, Crook county, had a rather start