As far as we are able to ascertain, the announcement that sy l arrangements have been, made about Chinese telegrams by the Japanese Consul at Shanghai and the Mi ter at Peking apply only to the lay ing of the cable, and not to a working arrangement in China. Up to the present, neither the Chinese Telegraph office at Shanghai, nor Volunteers are still coming forward in large numbers, and there will be no difficulty in raising all the men whom the Government and Lord Kitchener may ask for from here: The great difficulty will be equip: ping them: the same difficulty which has been felt in both Great Britain and France. But now 16,000 men have already been fully equipped the machinery for quickly equipping others is now in good order,
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