Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-25

and death over their subjects. They have
as many clerks and subordinates almost as
you will find in our government. and it is
quite as difficult to fill one Of these posi-
tons as it is to be President of the United
States. Each of these viceroys and COVER
nors has an army of his own. Ii Hung
Chang's forces number about 5000 men.
These have eleven camps within the prov
ince of Chill. They are armed with for
esgn guns and are well drilled, and will
form the chief support of the government
in tie present war. Ii Hung Chang has
also eleven camps of men in the province of
ChantonG and he is. as far this war is
concerned, practically commandment chief
of the whole At Marking L found vice
roy who had $500 men under him. He con-
trolled the big gun factory of Kiagnan, and
l visited his naval school on the outskirts
Of his capital and found several hundred
boys studying navigation under two Eng
hsh professors. Some distance below Shang
mai there is another great governor who
has an immense military establishment.
rms Is the governor of Foochow. His
troops, according to the Picking records
number more than G1,O0 men, and this
number includes both his land and
marine forces. He is in charge of the navy
yard at Focchow and he has some thou
sards of men there building battle ships.
Chang Chitung, the Great.
Another remarkable governor is his ex-
cellency. Chang Chitung the viceroy of
WI Chang. WI Chang is a city of nearly
million people, and Chang Chitung gov
ems his tens of millions. He has long been
a great man in China, and If you ask
Cinnamon who the two greatest men in
China are they will say Lii Hung Chang
and Chang Chitung. Ii Is, in fact, said to
be very jealous of Chang, and / suppose
Chang feels the same toward L. Chang
Chitung hates foreigners. He is building
railroads because he wants to be able to
defend China against the foreigners and
now that this war has broken out his work
VIII go on more rapidly than ever. He is
importing steel ingotS by the hundreds and
coke by the thousands of bushels from
England and Belgium for his steel works
| at Han Yang, seven hundred miles from the
seacoast, and he has spent already in the
| neighborhood of $10,WO.UOO upon his rail-
road experiment 1t was his gun factory
that was burned down only a few days ago
| and 1t may be that his immense blast fur
naceS VIII now be turned to the making OF
weapons of war. These furnaces are 100
| feet high, and they are of the latest Euro
pean make. He has connected with them
shops which cover'from forty to fifty acres,
| and there are twenty-five acres of ma
| chinery under one roof. China today has
| no good means of moving troops. A rail-
| road has been planned from Hankow to
| Tien Tsin and also from Hankow to Can
| ton These immense car works could be
put to the making of materials for this
| road. and as there are coal and iron in
| their near vicinity. the building of the line
would be compa ratively easy. About forty
Belgian engineers are now In the employ of
| this viceroy. These men understand all
| about the making of railroads and the
| working of steel, and If the government
| VIII furnish the money this the greatest of
| all trunk lines of the world could be built
| II would go for 800 miles through the
most thickly populated part of the Chinese
| empire, and would connect a half dozen odd
cities ranging from half million to a mil
| lion people in size.
| Ii Hung Changes Gun Works.
| Lii Hung Chang has gun works and an
| arsenal. the shops of which are nearly a
! mile square, and in. which all kinds of
modern guns are made 1t is much similar
! to the Shanghai arsenal which l described
in the letter / published some months ago
when / told how the Chinese were prepar-
Ing for war. No one can go through these
works without wondering at the marvellous
skill OF the Chinese In both of them they