The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-29
calibers up to tweve-inch hfty-ton

pieces.
The director of the plant--a Chinese
mandarin-expressed anxiety as to what
| is going to become of China in the fu-
| ture, and favored relations in England
which would give China the benefit Of
British protection. Lord Beresford in
| his account of an interview with the
mandarin, says: Il pointed out to him
the large and useless expenditure of
money incurred by the manufacture of
| heavy artillery, which should have
| nothing to do with the maintenance Of
| the integrity Of China under present
conditions, whereas if the same money
| was devoted to equipping serviceabe
army it would provide that security for
trade and commerce which foreign ma
lions perceived did not at present exist
Besides this arsenal there are similar
institutions at Tien-tSin, Nankin, Han
kow, Foo-Choo, Canton and Ching-T'u.
The arsenal at Tien-tsin is under the
provincial government Of the viceroy OF
Chilli 1t is supplied with everything
in the way of tools and machinery, and
has spare room enough for plant to
supply the whole Chinese army. The
plant is in charge of a British subject,
but the actual head Is Chinese official,
whose salary is one hundred and fifty
taels-about one hundred dollars-a
month A similar position In England
or America would, according to the re-
port of a European visitor, be worth at
least ten thousand dollars year
The mint, with a capacity for making
fifteen thousand dollars a day, is in this
arsenal There also is the naval school,
the Annapolis of China. This school
has sixty students, sons of noblemen,
between the ages of sixteen and twenty.
who remain at the school five years and
then are placed on a training ship for
further instruction. At this school all
the pupils are taught English. Next
door to the naval academy is another
school with accommodations for thirty
where young men receive instruction in
the Russian language, with view to
becoming Russian interpreters, The
money for the maintenance of this
school is provided by the Pekin govern
ment.
At the Nankin arsenal there are no
European employees, and although the
machinery is modern it is used in the
manufacture of useless war material.
The Chinese authorities at this place
showed the English visitors with great
pleasure and pride a weapon from
which a bullet could be sent through
four inches of wood, and said that no
other nation possessed similar weapons,
it was heartbreaking, said the English
visitor, "to see both officials and work
men taking pleasure and using diligence
in, he fo otI Of h,1t n hoo
lutely useless war Material"
The arsenal at Hankow turns out
about eight thousand Mauser rifles
year. There also much time and money
are used in the manufacture of useless
war material. At the Foo Choo arsenal
there is also q dockyard, and the whole
plant is under the sole charge of a Man
chu general. Waste of money because
of ignorance as to modern methods of
manufacture is as apparent at Foo-Choo
as at the other arsenals. An old powder
factory is one of the features of the
Canton arsenal. There is rifle factory
there also, and plant has been conn
pleted recently for making smokeless
powder, with a capacity of ninety thou
sand pounds a year.
When Lord Charles Beresford visited
China two years ago as the representa-
tive of the English chambers of com
merce he said; Great Britain has six
ty-four per cent of the whole foreign
trade of China. and is naturally anxious
as to its adequate security, and, being
on very friendly terms with the Chinese,
1t might be possible that the British |
government would allow an officer to |
help the Chinese to put their army in |
order. if the Chinese government ap- |
piled to the British government for as |
sistance of this description"
He also advised the officers of the |
that it might be well to |
INVITE other nations having large trad |
ing interests in China to lend a few off. |
GERS and on-commissioned officers to |
work with the British in the reorgani- !
cation of the army. Prince Ching said |
at that time that they had already had |
German officers to drill some of the
troops, and that Captain Lang, a Brit
ish naval officer had assisted in organ
izing their fleet
The prince and some other mobiles