A military school for Russian young men has been established, in command of which is a general staft~ officer.
The course takes 18 months and military science is taught on up-to date lines. Special-attention is paid visit their Russian colleagues for closer acquaintance-and study.
As a sign of his social regard the Tupan has presented the school with a banner—an honour usually accorded in the Chinese Army only to victorious armies and high commanders.
In handling the affairs of his Russian troops, Matshal Chanz Chung-chang is' assisted by his principal adviser—Mr, V. D, Mer= Wouloff, who has been the Marshal's personal friend for more than 16 years, standing by him through thick and thin, Outside the city wall of Tsinan, close to the foreign cemetery, two memorials to dead Russians have been erected, One with an iron cross and an engle for the Christians, the other, on an adjoining hill, with the crescent for Mohammedans, Many bodies were collected from the revent battlefields and efforts being m others who ar lo to recover the many ported as missing.
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