AFFAIRS, 30th July. The Principal Question of the Day.
That the Chinese Government is getting onlightonod at last as to the danger menacing the country and the ent wssity of preparing for any impen may be soon from the anxiety which is filling the minds of the principal Ministers and officers of the Crown to create a large disciplined army on a foreign model to be controlled from headquarters, that is to say, the Army Reorganisation Bureaa, at Peking, and not, 8 has hither to been the case, taking the orders from the great Viceroys of the Northern and Central provinces. A dispatch to this effect from Peking has been Received here, and to emphasise the subject it is stated thatan Imperial edict has now been sent to the provinces, commanding the Viceroys and Governors that, until further notice, all revenues collected from taxes, voluntary contributions from loyal subjects, and money received from the sale of official ranks must be transmitted without delay to the Board of Revenue in Peking, the Ministers of which shall be required to hand the money to the Army Reorganisation Bureau to be expended upon the new @isciplined army now being collected and organised in Chibli province. In the of organising, drilling, and arming, after the best foreign models, the new Imperial Army."
New Military Roads near Shanhaikuan, A Tientsin dispatch directs attention to some smart work recently done by the Engineer Corps of the First Brigade of the Chi my, under the Chief Command of General Ma Yi-kun. The Brigade in question is encamped at Paoyang, about thirty odd miles from Shanhaikuan and out of the line of the railway. There being no proper road between those two points practicable for any large body of troops which may have to get to Shanhaikuan in quick time at any moment, the General commanding the First Brigade dered Major Chang of the Engineer Corps attached to the Brigade to construct a military road from Paoyang to the last-named place, which was smartly done by the Corps ins remarkably short time, there being also three bridges constructed en route.
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