New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

main 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 a view to becoming Russian in
terpreters. The money for the maintenance Of
this school is provided by the Picking Govern
ment
MAKING USELESS MATERIAL.
At the Marking arsenal there are no European
employees, and although the machinery is mod
ern 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 bullet could
be sent through four inches of wood, and said
that no other nation possessed similar weapons.
1T was heartbreaking," said the English Wis
itor, Ito see both officials and workmen taking
pleasure and using diligence in the manufacture
OF costly but absolutely useless material"
The arsenal at Hankow turns out about eight
/ thousand Mauser rifles wear. There also much
time and money are used in the manufacture Of
! useless war material At the FoO-Choo arsenal
| there is also dockyard and the whole plant is
under the sole charge of a Manchu general.
Waste Of money because of ignorance as to
modern methods of manufacture is as apparent
at Foo-ChoO at the other arsenas
|
OF the Canton arsenal. There is a rifle factory
there also and a plant has been completed re-
Gently for making smokeless powder, with ca
pacity of 10000 pounds year.
When Lord Charles Beresford visited China
two years ago as the representative of the Eng
lish Chambers of Commerce he said: Great
Britain has GA per cent of the whole foreign
trade of China, and is naturally anxious as to
its adequate security and, being on very friend
! mis- he
that the British Government would allow an
officer to help the Chinese to put their army In
order, if the Chinese Government applied to
the British Government for assistance of this
description"
| He also advised the officers Of the Tsung-Ii-
Yamen that it might be well to invite other
nations having large trading interests in China
to lend a few officers and non-cOmmissioned
| officers to work with the British in the reor-
ganiZatiOn of the army. Prince Ching said at
| that time that they had already had German
officers to drill of the troops and that Cap
tain Lang, British naval officer, had assisted in
organizing their fleet.
/ The Prince and some other mobiles called on
Lord Charles Beresford at the Legation shortly
after the interview. In his account of the visit
| Lord BeTesford says:
| They informed that a special edict had
been issued on the previous day to Chung Chi
Tung, the Viceroy of Human and Hupeh or
dering him to have two thousand of his troops
| in readiness, in order that they should be put
under British officer for drill and organization
as trial A thousand of these were to be
Chinese, under the immediate command OF
Chung Chi Tung, and the other thousand were
! to be Manchus under the command of the Tartar
General Hsiang Hing"
! THE INEFFECTIVE PROVINCIAL SYSTEM
The system against which Lord Beresford
argued was that of having provincial armies
These, he said. ineffective and a vast
amount of property had been destroyed, and
many lives of missionaries had been sacrificed,
all owing to the want of efficient military and
police. An empire with four hundred millions OF
people should have effective army and even
place, could not exist with its population OF
300, 900 without armed and organized protec-
ton
At Shanghai the Marquis Ito, late Prime Min
lister of Japan, said that the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
China would unless China supplied her
self with adequate military and police force
to protect foreigners This in October,
4 1898. He favored the scheme by which the four
trading Powers-Great Britain, the United
States, Japan and Germany-should assist China
, in the reorganization of her military forces.
At Marking Lord Beresford again urged the
| organization of army under European Off
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