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CHINA WAKES UP TO WAR. "Sleepy Pacifist of East" Shows Power Against Universal War Lord. After German u-boats had destroyed more than a thousand Chinese t lives on neutral belligerent ships and China had declared war against the imperial German government, Berlin chuckled. "Another one!" laughed the infatuated burghers. "What on earth," they asked, "can the sleepy pacifist of the East do against our universal war lord?" Here is an answer?a tabloid version of what China is doing, can do, ^ and, in less than a year, has done against "our universal war lord." And it shows it is no dream to assume that on the Western front itself Chinese troops may swing the final fortunes of the war. China is commonly :called "unwieldly." Certainly her power is not organized with the watchlike compactness of Germany's. Millions and millions of Chinese have never even heard of the great war and doubtless never will. But it must be remembered i that in so vast a body of humanity I even comparatively minor reactions V of small parts of the population loom | proportionately large according to " our Western standards. Thus, as to China's army. In the mighty agglomeration of races which make up the new republic it is almost lost. And yet it embraces 45 divisions of 20,000 men each?900,000 hardy soldiers. Seventy per cent, of these are thoroughly modern units, well equipped, well drilled, and led by officers who have met the most ex: acting tests of European and Japanese training. An Expeditionary Army. The first Chinese expeditionary force is now preparing to go to France. Negotiations are under way j, among the allies to put them across. This first unit is an army corps? 40,000 of China's sturdiest troops, most bf them veterans familiar with the rattle of machine guns and bursting shell. And the Chinese government, if the necessary financial assistance and transportation facilities are provided, can send after, as fast as they are required, additional army corps until the Chinest fighting forces in France number 200,000 men of all ranks. Such a force could easily man 20 miles of trenches. It is a third of the number Hindenburg and Ludendorff flung into their great drive from the Chemin des Dames to the Marne. . China is taking this matter of military aid on the Western front very seriously. She had already established military headquarters in Paris under Lieut. Gen. Tang Tsai Li, vice minister of the Chinese chief of staff. There are now many high Chinese officers on the battle line studying the v actual conditions under which Chinese troops expect to operate. Chinese physicians, most of whom Volunteered in London, are serving with the British forces in considerable numbers. And the whole world % was surprised when Chinese laborers, i caught in the great German offensive through Picardy last spring, flung - 4 , down their shovels, grabbed the nearest rifles and in the critical inV terval, while French reinforcements were rushing to the battle, put the Jrresitible Hun over the backward jump. The Labor Army. Evidently these laborers must have been of a different type from the ordinary coolies we see in America. They are. They come chiefly from north China?Shantung and Chili? where the material for the Chinese > v army is recruited. Strapping sixfooters, and bronzed to a deep burn, ished luster,- they can work harder, ' and longer, endure more, and eat less than the most wiry peasant Europe produces. - There are 125,000 of the superlaborers in France, divided between the British and the French forces, but now, of course, like every other military organization, serving under the unified command of General Foch. For they are a military organization. They have their own regiments and companies, under their own petty officers, and they drill smartly to snapped-out English words of command. How they got there is one of the great adventure stories of this war. The lure is the difference between three cents a day and a montn. In far-away Shantung they have beaten converging roads to the British camps. If they pass the rigorous physical tests, they find themselves, queless and clean for the first time in their lives, and with a metal .identification tag welded upon the "east wrist" by the "ocean fiends," well upon the long journey to the strange land whete you can buy pink underwear and see flying dragoons in the air. The Ultimate Asset. They go to France under a threeyear pledge. The British are using 3,000 of them in Mesopotamia and still others have been sent to South Africa. The number in France has now reached the full quota agreed upon, but the Chinese government * sets no limit to the numbers who may go in the future. Indeed, that is the official Chinese attitude, both in regard to labor and troops. The ultimate asset of the allies is man power. China with almost 400,000,000 would never miss a force that in France would be considered enormous. And there is the ever-present food question. Americans who read of Chinese families and fail to realize that these spring from faulty distribution, never think of China as a great food producer. But she is. At the Versailles conference last November China pledged herself to as sist the allies with food in every possible form. The ministry of agriculture is now taking a census of the nation's food supply and has appointed special committees to encourage and increase production. North China is a heavy producer of the two chief saples, wheat and beef. Most of this goes directly to France, as the Chinese themselves eat practically no beef and only a limited amount of wheat. Other provinces export beans, bean meal,, and pork in huge bulk, and China, after keeping a few at home to ripen, sells more eggs abroad than any country in the world. Extensive canning factories take care of much of China's food surplus, especially her fruits. Chinese hides and leather are now reducing a great world shortage. So is Chinese coal. China is actually exporting coal to the United States and Canada (along the Pacific coast) and the Chinese government has ordered hundred of freight cars the better to handle the inexhaustible supply. More antimony comes from China than from anywhere else, and the allied munition industries could scarcely exist without it. The Bridge of Ships. Naturally, no matter how China multiplies her resources internally, the output depends chiefly on ships. She is now building them herself. Several large yards have sprung up since the war and she is putting into the water medium-sized vessels of both wood and steel, and of course Chinese crews are the chief reliance for navigation in the Orient. Still another way in which China may lend an ample hand to the allies lies in the beclouded future. China is the nearest and largest neighbor in the east of distracted Russia. Her northern frontier is the chief southern frontier of Siberia. Seven hundred and fiftv miles of the trans Siberian railway . runs straight through Chinese territory across Northern Manchuria. There will be no joint intervention without China. Any military expedition which Japan undertakes will be in concert with Chinese troops. China in this matter holds herself wholly at the coiinmand of the allies, and it is understood around the world that the one thing that China neither needs or covets is territory. Summing it all up, then, China is a pacifist, and though she may be a sleepy one, she is rapidly waking up. She is pacifist like the rest of us? so devoted to peace that she is willing to fight Germany for it. Nay, in China's case there is more than a willingness?ther^ is a certain eagerness. It was in China, during the Boxer expedition, that the Germans ? J U.lYli. nrsi earneu me uauie ui xiuus, Wouldn't WTait. 'fhey had been/ engaged three years, but there seemed no indication that the good ship matrimony was hovering in the offing. She was getting restless, but when she touched the subject he dexterously turned the conversation. Recently he turned it off to physiology, a science of which he was a student. "Yes," he said airly, "it is a strange but well authenticated fact that the whole human body changes every seva* years. You, my dear, are Miss Jones now. In seven years you will have changed completely. Not a particle of your present self will be left; but all the same you will still be Miss Jones." "Oh, I shall?" said the angry damsel, tugging away at the third finger of her left hand, "I assure you I won't if I have to marry a?a milkman! Of all the impudence?Here, take your ring and I never want to see you again."?Louisville CourierJournal. Seemed One Short To Susie. "Children," said the Sundayschool superintendent, "this picture illustrates today's lesson: Lot was warned to take his wife and daughters and flee out of Sodom. Here are Lot and his daughters, with his wife just behind them; and there is Sodom in the background. Now, has any boy or girl a question before we take up the study of the lesson? Well Susie?" "Pleathe, thir," lisped the latest graduate from the infant class, "where ith the flea?" Union bartenders at Boston, Mass., are now paid $23 a week. 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