There have been brigands of a sort in China as long as history can record, but the brigand of today is not tht same type as that previous to the _setting up of the Republic. With the republican form of brigandage we are mostly concerned these days, and the whole question requires what is known in surgery og the radical cure." This cancerous growth should not be tem-borized with but excised as quickly and as speedily as possible. China is a country that has always had soldiers, and sometimes it is thrown out that the military were thrust upon it in self-defence, but this seems to be beside the mark. It is true of China, as it is true of every country, that improved weapons of warfare in one country necessitate eah and every Power in the world to come up to date. The trouble in China lies not in the fact that it possesses the latest maximum gun or the most up to date autom.tic revolvers, but in the fact that those behind them are out of gear.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.