THE AWAKENING OF CHINA—HOW THE ARMY IS TRAINED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 30

THE AWAKENING OF CHINA—HOW THE ARMY IS TRAINED.

< liin.i. with lor four hundred million* of people. is rousing from the sleep which ha* held her for centuries, ami the white man i* wondering what place she will aspire to among the nations of the earth. \ cablegram llliter day informed us that a movement is afoot to establish a

Chinese navy, and if tin- Chinaman makes as good a sailor as he does soldier, the result may fulfil the prediction of Napoleon who said that when China moved it would change the face of the earth. Experts have agreed that properly’ organised, drilled, and armed, the Chinaman will make a most excellent soldier. That the author-

ities are making a valiant attempt to turn the oner despised yellow-man Into a fighter is proved in a striking manner by these photographs of some reci'iit manoeuvres in Central China, which were lent by Major <i. W. S. Patterson, who has returned from an extensive tour through China, and was struck everywhere he went with the evi-

den< es of the fact (hat China is moving. Like the Japanese did. the Chinese are employing ihe best army instructors t hey can srrttrr from tin* European nriiiirs. The Japanese Is not so much in evidence In China as he was, because he is now viewed with suspicion, and is not encouraged about the defences.