ni him, and many foreigners will swear to having actually seen them. Tam convinced that in this they are mistaken, and give credence to the explanation offered me on the point by General C. C. Ting, who accompanies Marshal' Wa, the Minister for War. He poi that many of the North. soldiers-are distinctly Jay pearance. I noticed many myself after this, and found it to be true enough. The uniform they wear goes to heighten the impression, but they converse in Chinese F 2nd there can be no doubt that they are Chinese.
The Penalties of Retreat General Ting informs me that all the northern troops fight very fiercely and stop for nothing. He vouched an explanation for this, aybe they wilh get shot, maybe not., But suppose they do not go on and turn to run, then are bound to be killed; their officers ill them themselves." From which it will be seen that the Chinese-are learning more and more from our western methods of fighting.
The whole northern army is excellent ly equipped. Their heaviest artillery is made up of six 65 Howitzers. In addition they have some 20 moderate-tizad field guns, large number of small mountain guns and a quantity of machine guns. They have several hundred Ponies, well fed and in excellent. condition, and a battalion of quite passable Chinese cavalry.
Tam assured that there has been fighting on the Thsing-Loyang front, and headquarters here are most' emphatic on the point that the Chekiang troops have never fired a shot.
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