Peking, July 16.
The question and answer form of improving morale is practised in Feng Vu-hsiang's armies. The ficers have certain questions to ase of their men, in the intervals of drill, and the men respond accord ing toa set manner. Rehearvals take place almost every morning iq the various parade grounds surrounding Peking, and are claimed to be very efficacious in. heartening the men, The following is the beginning of one of these question and answer tests which a foreigner overheard while in his bathroom the other morning.
Officer: Do you think you could march through the Legation quart-
Men: No, we should be stopped by the foreigners, Ofiicer: Did you read the paper this morning?
My informant could not catch the answer, and the squad then moved away, the officer apparently thinleing they were too close to a foreign Tesidence to pursue the enthu:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.