That the Chinese are in earnest in their endeavours to create a modern army to defend their country, against encroachments and aggrandisoments from without and revolutions and interned conflicts within, can be seen in the la number of military academies and schools that have been established throughout the empire during the past three or four years, under the direction, for the most part of Japanese professors and officers, or Chinese officers who have completed their education in that country. The following is a list of these military ae ademies and educational institutions furnished the writer from an official source. Beginning with the Metropolitan, or Senior Viceroyalty of Chibli province we have three of these academies, namely: the Shuch'tng (Quickly Completed) Academy for young cadets, containing no less than four hundred and seventy-six cadets; the Wupoi Hsiao Hsia-'ang, or Military Primary school, with one hundred and twenty students; and the Tsiangpion (Officers') Academy, with over five hundred members composed of regimental' officers of all grades. Next come the military academies of Hupeh province, two in number, started by H. E. Viceroy Chih-tung, viz:—The Wupei, tary Academy, with sixty cadets, and the Tsiangpien, or Officers' Acdemy, with one hundred members, selected from the various foroign-model-Ted regiments of that province; and Kiangsu province, also with two academies, name Kiangning (Nanking) Academy with one hundred cadets, and Kiangsu (Soochow) Academy with eighty cadets. The rest of the provinces in the present list own one military, or ' Wu-pei" academy each, that is to say: Szowith one hundred and ninety tung, two hundred and forty; Shan:
hundred and twenty; Kuangtung, one hundred and eighty; Anhui, one hundred; Kiangsi one hundred and sixty; witha supernumerary school addition, containing thirty members kiang, one hundred; Hunan, two hundred and forty; Yunnan, ninety-one; Kueichou, one hundred; Sher Chinese Turkestan, or th cadets, The Fukien institution with one hundred and fifty-seven cadets is not designated " Wupei Hsia-tang" like the rest, but calls itself the " Luchiin," or Land forces, Academy, while in the city of (h'ingchou, in Shantung province, where there is a Manchu garrison, under Manchu Lieutenant-General, there is an Academy for forty young Manchu officers, and in the city of Suiyuanch'éng, in Shansi province, outside the Great Wall, where there is also s Manchu garrison, there is a similar Academy with sixty young Manchu students. We have here only fifteen of the eighteen provinces of China Proper possessing Military Academies and schools, with a total of three thousand three hundred and forty-four members, the three unrepresented provinces being Kuangsi, Kan-ssu, snd Honan, while the New Dominion. or Chinese Turkestan, which is not considered as a portion of China Proper, comes to the front with one of these institutions. One can understand why Kuangsi province has no military academy
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