The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 25, 1918, Page 7, Image 7
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
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, 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
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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
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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.
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"Children," said the Sundayschool
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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
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"where ith the flea?"
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