The Commander of the Woosung garrison is dissatisfied because at Present there is no other feasible means of transporting men between Shanghai and Woosung except the railway. He finds that the streets and roads existing between these two places are altogether too narrow and ill-constructed for the purpose of rapidly moving cavalry and artillery, and that in case of they will prove useless and worse than useless. The Commander has ordered a survey to be made with a view to constructing a military road to bring Shanghai and Woosung within easier reach of During these times of militarism and armament, Director Li, of the Shanghai Arsenal, thinks that the science of manufacturing munitions should be studied in this country without delay. With this object in view, he has obtained the sanction of the Minister of War to the creation of a School of Munitions as a useful branch of the Arsenal, to teach the science as above-stated. At first only sixty students will be enrolled for the School, but the number may be increased when occasion requires, The Director hopes that China may, one of these days, become independent of foreign help in the manufacture of arms and ammunition.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.