FIRST CHINESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 231, 29 September 1910, Page 7

FIRST CHINESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

SGISDTCANT-NAVAI- AND -MILI-

TARY "L__*GISLATION.

'-Ihe Peking correspondent of the y •Tuner.Wah Times," writing by last mail, says that a full meeting of the Board of War has been convened to prepare bills for the consideration of the Erst Na- , tional Assembly, which"will be -opened on October 3. It is reported that measures ; providing for the following will be con- • sidered: — The training of a new army on modern methods; the procedure of appointing military'cadets; the abolition of the old army; the disposal of officers who have served in the old army; conscription; the military discipline of the soldiers; arms and ammunition; and the breeding of army horees. The Naval .Department held a meeting at the beginning of August, when it was decided to introduce the following measures on naval affairs in the National Assembly: — -- .- / '■'... To appropriate funds for constructing offices for the proposed Naval Board; to decide what funds the Board of Finance shall undertake to provide for the Admiralty; how much the Provincial Government shall provide; what funds shall be provided for constructing naval stations and men-of-war; authorising the ■withdrawal of the private deposit of the late Empr-ss-Bowager for the fund for re-organising the navy; to establish naval printing offices; to organise naval police; to establish schools for the training of naval cadets, who will be sent to foreign countries to study; to establish naval colleges; and to draw up naval ordinances in accordance with foreign laws. -v.