The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-17
HOW THE CHINESE
ARE ARMED.

No such armies have ever been seen as
the Chinese forces gathered about Tientsin
and Pekin says Lcslic's Weekly. Among
them are regiments armed with the an
tique bows and arrows used by their an
cestors over 1000 years ago. Every day
they can be seen practicing shooting at a
target, but the excellence they seek is not
skill in hitting what they shoot III, but
gracefulness of posture while discharging
their arrows. Other regiments are sup
piled with pole lanccs and trideuts made
after historic patterns while others carry
great scimeters, with wide cutting blades
mounted on long shafts.
A large part of the success of Chinese
armies in time past has been due to their
ability to strike terror to the hearts of their
enemies, so every corps has its regiment
of terror strikers" dressed in the most
preposterous of costumes and drilled in
outlandish poses acrobatic feats and facial
grmaces.
Another peculiar part of Il Chinese sol
dier's equipment is his lantern. 1t is not
to be supposed that they could see their
way by night unless each carried a light,
and in one of the recent attacks on Ticn-
| tsin the Chinese forces advanced, each
soldier carrying his lantern. The allies
| waited until the Chinese were within easy
distance and then opened on them with a
| rapid fire gun, whereupon the Chinese
| fl, leaving their lanterns Oh the iicid.
Still other of the Chinese forces are
AIMED with their ancient gingals the first
and shot, and touched off at the vent with
| Il stick of lighted incense. These old guns
| have been in USr among the Chinese for
upward of 800 years.
| But alongside of these same regiments
are others using almost every known kind
| of modern arms and drilled in the tactics
of all the great military powers. Over 10
makes of modern rifles and muskets are
known to he in use in the Chinese armies,
| and great decentralization has frequently
occurred by the dealing out of ammuni-
ton for one kind of gun to a regiment
| that used another.
In the main. however, the Chinese have
| been apt pupils and whether trained by
| Russians. Germans, French or English
| officers, they have come to use their
| weapons, whether they be small arms or
artillery, with deadly effect. The bonn
bardment of Ticntsin has shown such
accuracy of gun fire that it has been sug-
| gested that the guns were directed by
| Europeans, but as the rifle fire of the
Chinese regiments has been no less dead
| ly and accurate, it is more probable that
it has all been done by Chinese, who have
| thus surprised the world by showing that
| they have learned its methods of fighting,
| and henceforth must be counted as fac.
| tors in world conflicts.
| The Department of Agriculture is Sc
curing good stocks of the best varieties of
| European and African macaroni wheats
and Hungarian bread wheats. which it ex-
| poets will furnish the basis for great cx-
| tension of the macaroni manufacturing in
| uuStl Ill tuc Cuiltu StdtcS- Inc cApcIl-
| ment also is expected to create demand
for the production of the macaroni whcats
in those parts of the country to which the
| experiments now in progress show them
to be adapted Formerly all the macaroni
| consumed in the United States was I'M
ported from Europe, but recently macar-
| oni manufactures have been established
in this country.
| OLIN BRYAN-ATT At LAW,
| 101- 102 Atlantic Trust Building,
Baltimore, Md