Those with the military mind will be specially interested in one point in the scheme for disbanding and reorganizing China's army put forward by Mr. Bruce Baxter in our cclunns, namely that the division should be abolished and the brigade be made the standard unit. In the British and most other armies the division is the smallest _self-contained force: it includes all the apparatus and impedimenta to support itself in the field, which a brigade does not. This, however, is no reason why the Chinese brigade of the future should not be so, a miniature division in fact. It would, under such conditions, be very mobile and extremely useful for one important role, rounding up the bandits who now infect almost every province. Furthermore, were the need to arise in the distant future for the creation of a great national army, this condition would render the brigade easily capable of expansion into divi-The purely military point in which considerations of national defence are paramount. would deprecate the scattering of troops over such a wide area, as y|adding to the difficulties of mai present condi tions this is unavoidable, and long as a possibility of internal danger exists, it will hardly be possible to produce a better miliary scheme than Mr, Bruce Baxter's.
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