One is not surprised to find that a twelfth issue of the China Mission Year Book for 1924 is just being published by the Christian Literature Society. This very handy Tittle volume contains a great deal of the most up-to-date information on almost every phase of modernist for the book being in such good. demand. In these days one turns' with special interest to the chapter on militarism, with its disclosure soldiers disturb fina and political order.
Exact figures of the number of soldiers duly en-tributes the article, official and reliable est the total at between a million and 4 half and two millions. A Chinese army division contains at full strength 2,000 men. On this basis. there are enough men under arms in China to form between 125 and 180 divisions. The monthly expense of maintaining a division is approximately $460,000. Assuming that all the men under arms were ly paid and the normal of this were met tween $56,250, 000 and $67,600,000 monthly would be required." It is "required," of course, and a good deal of it gained by looting and illegal taxation. The existence of these so-called the people, and from a military: point of view of no national value in their present state of organization. It will be a great day for. China when the greater part these military mobs have been disbanded and replaced by some comparatively small but efficient fore which really can be described as China's army.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.