Recruiting for the Chinese Regiment goes on apace. The strength of the first battalion is to be brought up to twelve companies, with a view, no doubt, to the carly formation of a second battalion, The regiment has been subjected toa great deal of criticism, sympathetic and otherwise. On the whole the judgment of these com: petent to pronounce is favourable, Criticism, under whichever of these heads it_may fall, is always useful, "ud contributes largely to healthy development. To resent or ignore criticism is to refuse what is essential to success, the discovery of weakness and defect, remediable for the most part, save when the mind is clouded by ignorance and conceit. A good deal of hard soldier work fell tothe regiment at the front, gun pulling, picket duty on lines of communication, and so forth, not calling for brilliancy and not lending itself to reporting, but sound, indispensable work nevertheless. Thus these soldiers of not many months' standing contributed their quota to the successful operations of the Allies during the summer and autumn. Nor can their sererest critics deny to them their share of the credit at the siege of Tientsin, when heavy demands were made on the more aggressive qualities of the soldiers,
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