dan, WinLR, Police and Volunteers both in the Foreign Sottioment and the French Concession have been busying themselves with the disarming and guarding of fugitive soldiers, it is ax well to bring to the attention of the public the accumulation of arms which these fugitives have brought with them, By far the greater number of men in the Dost few days' fighting were dis-Jarmed on the borders of the French Concession, and the result is that in the possession of the French authorities are some eight thousand rifles, numerous revolvers and anton matic pistols, a few field suns and over a million rounds of small arms ammunition, The Foreign Settlement authorities have between three and four thousand rifles with their a companying ammunition, ax well as revolvers and a field gun or two, It ix quite impossible to say what a Chinese division ix to-day, ux after the ordeal battle, expecially following prolonged hostilities of the summer and carly autumn, likely to be substantially duced, but it will surely not be far out to suggest strength at any enough here to equip an ay division.—When troops interned the authority into them ives " recei at the same disarms them, and that when the. war is over the arms are returned to the Gov= ernment which originally owned them. At the same time that Government pays for the keep of its troops who remain interned until the end of the war, Remembering this, a Chinese suggestion which, quite unofficially, we understand has reached the French authorities, possesses a very special interest.
The suggestion is roughly that all this collection of arms and ammunition should be placed on a man-of-war, taken well out to sea and dumped overivoard can get at it, Not, only, by this means, do they' hop that' the namber of arnis able for putting soldiers in the ting be but that the armed dory on the part of dishs wlaiers will be Tessene ction of arms at present in the 4 n of the foreign author the most hi genious that coald be snagined. are absolutely modern guns and automatic rifles, complete with spare parts and belt-filling equipment, und the fill and mountain "runs which have been brought in sre of ly modern pattern as well. comes to rifles the majority are eminently serviceable, a number being gerfeetly good German Mausers, some of nese make after the Mauser pattern, and a tain number of Chinewe manufacture which do credit to the Chinese arse Then the odds and ends come along. ale most every conceivable rifle 01 shot gun in the universe being represented. One is ssid to yo back to the sixties, being a re-eating rifle of the most anti-
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