An order of the President has a] pointed Wang Shi-cheng, Yuan Koting, Lu Chin and Chang Chi-yao four divisions of troops forming the 0 be Commanders-in-Chief of the
Model Army Corps, as already reported. The Ministry of War is pushing the plan to completion very energetically, as desired by the President. In order to expedite matters, the commanders of troops in the provinces have been instructed to select and recommend the best of their officers for service in connexion with this Model Corps, while the vacancies thus created in their commands can be filled at leisure in the usual way. General Yang, Commander-in-chief of the 4th Division, whose headquarters are at Sungkiang, in pursuance of such instructions, has recommended Lieutenants Wang Vu-teao and Chang Pu-yin as competent to be captains, and some hundred others, either Hieutenants, sub-lieutenants, or corporale, but all capable and trained men, belonging to the three infantry brigades, the 19th, 14th, and 15th. 'Their' pedigrees and records of career have been sent to the Mini try of War. They were paid passage money on Monday and left for Nanking by train the same evening; they will then proceed north by the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
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