AN EDITOR'S LIFE SAVED BY CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 31

AN EDITOR'S LIFE SAVED BY CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.

During the early part of -October, 1896, I contracted a bad cold, which settled on my lungs and was neglected until I feared thafc consumption had appeared in an incipient state. I was constantly coughing and trying to expel something which I could not. I became alarmed, and after giving the local doctor a trial, bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and the result was immediate improvement, and after I had used three bottles my lungs were restored to their healthy state. — B. S. Edwaeds, publisher of The Review, Wyant, 111. For sale btf f§9 dealers ; price, Is Gdj 3s.

The native artillery consists of four British of£cer3 and 255 natives of all ranks. There are 22 companies of sappers and miners, including one submarine company. The Imperial artillery in India are armed with 12poundsr breeen-loading guns, but these are too short in range to compete against the rapid-fire modern ones with which Russia is now arming its field and horse batteries. The number of batteries and guns of the Imperial force 3f orce3 now in India arc as follows : — 11 horse, 35 field, and 8 mountain batteries, with 324 guns. There are also 27 companies of garrison artillery belonging to the Imperial army, and eight companies of volunteer artillery. This gives a total strength in European artillery up to 13,200 officers and men. The volunteer artillery have 24- field guns, which brings the number of guns up to 3^B, or, including the 72 guns of obsolete muzale-load-ing'pattern attached to the native batteries, India's field artillery can muster a grand total of 420 guns. This is 42 gtms less than it was on January 1, 1899, as seven batteries of artillery have been shipped from India to South Africa since September of last year. Insufficient "in numbers, armed with obsolete weapons, and practically without transport, the Indian army, both Imperial and native, must bo prepared to face a Russian force outnumbering them four to one, unless British statesmen secure the aid of one or more powerful nations such as Japan or Germany; or it may perhaps be possible to secure the aid of Persia, of Turkey, and of Afghanistan to Btem' the tide of Russian aggression in Asia, while the British forces deal with France elsewhere.

July 30. The despatches state that the Allies have decided to advance on Peking via the railway from Tientsin. This decision is a wise one, as there -can, be no doubt whatever about the advantages that will accrue to the forces as they advance to the north-west by that rotite on account of the speed with which supplies can be forwarded by the river, and to this will be added the advantage of a railway in the rear, as the Allies are sure to repair and maintain the railway and keep it open, thereby giving two routes by which supplies and reinforcements can reach the front. There is orw drawback to this route, however, that is of a serious character which is worth mentioning, and that must have caused the admirals commanding the Allied forces a good deal of consideration — i.e., the depth of water at Tientsin and its approaches ; but it is probable that satisfactory arrangements have been made to satisfy all parties concerned. There can be no gainsaying the fact that the. Japanese admiral would not give his consent to the arrangement if his men were to play second fiddle to those of Russia and France, and it is hardly likely that Admirals Seymour and Rsmey would be content if the French and Russian troops were to have any advantage over British and American soldiers as far' as transport goes. From Tientsin there may be said to be two water routes to Peking — i.e., one via the Peiho River to within 16 miles of the north-east side of the cit3 r , and the other via the S?.iig Kan Ho by a more southerly route, circuitrag about the south of Peking, and then turn • x ing almost north until it reaches a position at the head of navigation, about 25 mile? vrest of the native city. The advantage of sending a strong force via the Sang Kan Ho >route would be very great from, a military point of view, as a strong force of Europeans, if they could reach the head of navigation •west of the city would block the retreat ci the Chinese to the westward after the Allies 'defeated them to the eastward of the city. IfTor' unless some measures are taken to cut off the retreat of the Chinese when they are routed by the column following tho railway along the Seiho River, they will simply abandon Peking and defeat the object the Allies Slave in view — i.e., the early crushing out of Chinese^ opposition. There can be no doubt now about the fate that befell the Europe^s, without regard to rank or nationality, at Peking, and there can 'be as little doubt expressed about the attempt cf Li Hung Chang to save the cotirt at Peking from all responsibility for the massacre by negotiating with the Powers to de-liver the ambassadors at Tientsin, and then claiming that the revolutionists overpowered the escort when they were on the way between Peking and Tientsin. Such duplicity may be condemned as beneath the dignity of a statesmen but it does not do to consider the matter in that light. Li Hung Chang must be judged by the Oriental standard, and not by the code of honour which exists, or is supposed to exist, in the Occident, and which is suunosed to govern the words which are spoken or ■bitten by Western statesmen. Li Hung Chang therefore cannot be s-evereiy blamed for trying to place his country in Vac. best possible position by relieving it of the terrible "blot- upon its history which- the massacre of ■the unfortunate ambassadors and* the other foreign residents of the Chinese capital entails ; neither can it be claimed by Europeans that the representatives of the Great Powers liave set Chinese statesmen a good example at all times, for the Russian Embassy to the Court of Peking bat, always been Oriental rather -than . Occidental in its practices, and to off-set Russian intrigue and duplicity the British ambassador at Peking had to adopt 3nea3ures which lie would not condescend to do under other circumstances, and what the British ambassador was often compelled to do was done by every diplomat at the court of the Chinese Emperor. The chartering of a steamer to load New Zealand coal for the British ships on the China station shows how valuable high-class coal really is to a ship of war, and that 'the supply of coal at Singapore, Hongkong, and Wei-hai-wei is not very large. If the supply is short thus early in the campaign, it behoves the Admiralty <o bestir themselves, and, it may be added, that the coal minina companies on the West Const must increase their output to meet the new market for their goorlp. While considering the coal question, ifc would be well if tlie Parliament of this colony passed a measure prohibiting the sale of.Wesfcport coal to foreign ships of war without special permits from the Minister of Mines or the Governor in Council.