For s long time there has been, grest desi of jealousy between the ent kinds of troops which saved the ties to maintain The "New Troops connected with the regiments stationed io Chengsha are anmbered the 49: h and 50th in proper succession. Ca the other hand the militia are purely raled from jin the province. The officers of experienced men who isto. tine foo, the ranks. The pay of the new troops has been from Tis, 3. to Tls. 9 a month: of the militia from Tls. 3. The new troops are better drilled, better housed and better armed than the militia, There has been no bond of connexion whatever between the two kinds of troops, The new men do not disguise their contempt for the militia the militia have not diegaised their impotent hatred of the new troops. The Iste general of the regolare was most urgent in his condemnation of the felly of one goverament supporting two
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