The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-04
CHINA AT A GLANCE.

New York Evening WerId)
Cnlnese soldiers range from Is to 60
To become a soldier is a humiliation In
China. The magistrates Outrank the mill
tary, socially,
The population of China is nearly 400
UoJOoo-more than the combined popula-
ton of Great Britain, France. Russia
Germany and Japan.
People in the interior of China seldom
READ newspapers. They get their ideas of
torelgners and outside doings by gossip
Ihe chinese boys ambition is to become
civil magistrate. Even servants save
aim.
English bankers in China give native
commercial men a name for strict bust
| ness honesty.
II a Chinese criminal is a fugitive the
police arrest his father, grandfather,
motheT, uncle or aunt Family affection
speedily brings the man wanted TO the
| relief OF his relative.
A native priest says of the Chinese ar
tlcies OF religion: The men believe them
! in China"
/ China could raise an army of 700 900
men; but 1t would be undisciplined and
| only One-third equipped
Eight million cartridges were taken TO
Pekin two years ago, and constant ad-
| dltiOns have been made.
The Chinese possess MauSeF rifles and
Nordenfeldt, Hotchkiss and Maxim guns.
corps, transport service. or cOmmissariat
in China.
A favorite Chinese weapon is a native
made rifle of one-inch calibre recurring
two men to handle il.
The Chinese have thirty field batteries,
with 40 Krupp and Armstrong guns.
The Chinese navy consists of four
cruisers and few useless fighting YES
sells.
China has new colleges in engineering.
| navigation, military tactics, electric sci
ence and medicine, with European pro-
fessors.
Good newspapers are printed at the
| treaty ports OF China
PeKin, the capital OF China, has a pop
ulation of more than a million. Canton
has / coo, 000
Tien Tsin is a treaty port on the River
Pelho, seventy miles from Pekin,
Shanghai is the largest and most i'm
portant treaty port. Twelve miles from
the mouth of the Yang-tse-Kiang river.
Port Arthur leased TO Russia in 1898 for
q naval base in the far east.
Che Foo, on the Shantung peninsula. A
treaty port with the best climate for Eu-
Taku forts, now destroyed. were three
in number, at the mouth Of the Peiho
! river.
Newchang is a treaty port of the Brit
| ish concession in Manchuria, 100 miles
north of Port Arthur.
Weihaiwei Uiukuntao), British base of
! operations. A garrisoned port with a
/ large. safe anchorage.
Peiho north river rises beyond the
great wall, flows past Pekin and Tien
| Tsin to Gulf of Liaotung. NaVigable from
mouth to Pekin, 100 miles.
| Hoangho, river of northern China, emp
! tying into Gulf of Pechili.
! Yangtse, river in the kiangsu province,
on which the port of Nankin is situated
Chang Chi TuHg, viceroy at HankOw, a
man of much Influence with the people
and believer in China for the Chinese
| Chang vi, director of mines and assist
| ant director of northern railways. Favor
lite of the dOwager empress. A risinS
man, much in touch with foreigners.
| Hsu Ching Chen, vice president OF
| board Of works. eX-minister TO Russia
| and Germany, president of Chinese East
ern railway.
| Kang vi a Nanchu. anti-foreign, presi-
dent of the board of war
Kang Yu Wei, eXiled leader of the re-
| form party.
Kwang Hsu, the present emperor. son OF
| Iiu Kun VI. viceroy at Rankin, trusted
ally of the doWager empress
| Ia Hung Chang acting Viceroy OF Can
ton, trusted friend of the dowager en-
Prince Ching. reported dead, was lord
chamberlain of the court and commander
of Pekin field force
| Prince Ii senior member of the cab,
met. much trusted in imperial family.
! Prince Sheng, administrator of tele-
graphs and railways, head of the i'm
peTial bank and of the China Merchants
Steamship company Man of great power
always to be reckoned with.
Tsung Ii Yamen, council OF ten mem
bers acting on foreign affairs.
Prince Tuna. father of Pu Chun, heir
apparent and now leading the anti-for-
eign revolt.
TIE Hsi. the dowager empress.
| Yung Lu, the empress factotum, gen
eralissimo of the army.
Generals Tung Fuh, Mich and Kang Su
anti-foreign leaders in revolt
Flu a prefecture.
FUtai the governor of a province.
Goodwin a place for storing goods
| HaikWan Chinese maritime customs.
Ii. a Chinese mile. one-third of a British
mile.
! Yamen. an official residence.
Tael a coin of silver. worth from Ga
cents to us cents, according to province
Squeeze, general term OF extortion-
Kiang, or no, river, hu lake
Pea, north; nan, south, tung, east s
| west.
Shan, mountain: sheng. a province
cheng, a town; hsiang, village; hsien, {
district; ling. hill, peak or pass.