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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 2

best acquainted with the numbers and disposition of the nation's military forces, sums up the standing army as follows : — FIGHTING TROOPS. Manchurian Field Force ... 50,000 Manchurian Irregulars ... ... 20,000 Fighting Braves 125^000 Chien - Chun, or Disciplined Troops ... 10,000 205,000 RESERVES UNDER ARMS. Pekin Field Force 13,000 Banner Troop* in Pekin .... 75*000 Banner Troops in Provinces ... 95,000 Luh - Ying, or Green Standard Regiments 506,000 689,000 There is a separate force at the disposal of the Governor of each province, consisting of troops belonging to the following classes : — 1. Banner Men.—These are descendants of the army which established the Manchu Dynasty 250 years,ago. The war with Japan showed the force to be cowardly and untrained, and little improvement has taken place since then. 2. The Green Standard Troops, forming the Chinese Territorial Army, and a, survival of that which was conquered by the Banner Men. 3. The Fighting Braves, a force that originated in Gordon's "ever-victorious army.' The Braves were the first section of the Chinese Army to be drilled in the foreign style. 4. The Chien, or disciplined troops.— This force, inaugurated by Li Hung Chang, is composed of the cream of the Fighting Braves. They are the only " beef-fed" troops in the whole army. After the war 35 German military instructors were specially engaged to remode], drill, and train these troops on the latest European lioes. They are extremely unpopular with the remainder ot the army. 5. Local Troops, or raw levies, armed with spears, matchk>uks. and bows and arrows. There are also 858,600 reserves, between sixteen and sixty years of age, including militia, volunteers, gendarmerie, river, and canal guards, grain transport, and tribes. Numbers are always reckoned by battalions or " Ying " of 500 men in the infantry, and 250 men in the cavalry. The most formidable resistance the allies will meet with is from the ChienChiin and the Pekin Field Force. The Pekin Field Force, composed of the pick of the Pekin Banner Men, consist , * nominally of 13 battalions of infantry of 1000 men each, 11 of cavalry of 500 each, with 1500 artillery. The Chinese field artillery proper is under the management of the "Fighting Braves." There are at .least 30 six-gun batteries with these troops, the weapons being 9-pounder B.L. Armstrong guns, and 7 pounder and 12-pounder B.L. Krupp guns. The army pos?e?ses a respectable stock of machine guns of various patterns. There are said to be hundreds of Nordenfeldts 0t42M.M., 44 M.M., and 47 M.M. calibre, as well as Gatlings, Hotchkiss, and Maxims. In consequence of foreign firms foisting inferior and damaged magazine rifle 3on to the Chinese authorities, the latter has decided to rearm the whole iniai.try with one standard pattern ot rifle, and the choice has fallen upon the Lee, which has a calibre of ■433-ujch, and possesses the came magazine system as the English arm. The Chinese Army has no regular transport, commissariat, or medical service whatever, everything of this nature being left to chance. With warm shampoos of Ccticuka Soap ar light dressings of Cutiouka, purest of eim ■ lient skin cures. Thi3 treatment at or.', stops falling hair, removes cni3ts, scales, v i dandruff, soothes irritated, itching surt'ac:*stimulate3 the hair follicles, supplies t,. , roots with energy and nourishment, ru makes the hair grow when all else fails. Sold everywhere. Foreign depots: F. Newbeet, Ix , doiif 1.. Miur, Paris: R. Towns ft Co., Sydney. I'm

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