PREPARING FOR WAR

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

PREPARING FOR WAR.

AFTER giving some interesting facts relative to the progress which China has made within the past few years in the arts of peace, the Asiatic Quarterly Review says:—

The improvement in the system of national defense is still more striking. Huge arsenals under foreign direction are springing up in various directions, and the vast army of China is being gradually supplied with weapons of the latest pattern, while great battalions are being incessantly drilled and disciplined by European officers. The Chinese navy already consists of twenty-six foreign-built men-of-war, some of them large and powerful iron-clads, and about one hundred gunboats, built in the arsenals of the empire. Referring to the notorious industry and enterprise of the Chinese abroad, Mr. Dunlop prophesies that when the subjects of the Celestial Empire enjoy, under the new and more enlightened policy, the same privileges and opportunities at home as are afforded to them abroad, there will be no room for doubt as to what is to be the dominating power of the future in the far east of Asia.