United Service (V. 4); A Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHINESE ARMY. (FROM LA REVUE MILITAIRE DE L'ETRANGES, FEBRUARY 28, 1890.) Reforms are slow of introduction in this immense country, where traditions are so powerful. The creed of the ancestors has such a strong hold there that we cannot be astonished at the passionate attachment which the Chinese exhibit for their institutions of by-gone days. These can only be subjected to gradual modifications, introduced one by one, and as if reluctantly. No people is less favorably disposed towards innovations and, above all, towards the radical reforms which turn upside-down the administrative organism of a country. Nevertheless, the spirit of change has hovered over the military institutions of China for some years past. As was to be expected, European influence acted in the first place upon the navy and the maritime establishment generally; it has since been felt in the land forces; new arms have been introduced, and a new method of instruction; army corps have been created, and fortifications erected after European plans. This work of reorganization proceeds very slowly, but its progress is becoming more perceptible every day. In the grades of high command no change of the organization has been made, and it seems to be, as formerly, entirely insufficient. Its principal feature is the " Tribunal of War," which takes the place of the Minister of War of other countries. It is attached by rigid bonds to certain civil institutions, as, for example, the department of buildings and the cenaorat. Besides, the more important military questions are submitted to the imperial council; those which affect the general administration, such as the opening of credits, come within the purview of the department of finance. The result is that the Ministry of War occupies a subordinate positi...

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