Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — A Noisy Army. [ARTICLE]

A Noisy Army.

The rank and file sos the Chinese army can outbugle any army of the world. Mr. Nathaniel Peffner, in the Home Sector, says that there are always two buglers to every squad of soldiers in the Chinese army. There is one thing that the Chinese soldier does do: he bugles. The one great, Insatiable passion of the Chinese army Is bugling. I am sure that one out of every three men has a bugle, that one out of every two hours he blows it, and that not one time In three thousand does he blow any recognized call or tune. He begins at half-tfast three in the morning—“he” being now used collectively. He plays the same note —“he” now being used Individually and each “he” playing a different note —until six o’clock In. the morning. Then he to another. He stops for meals and for a few hours of sleep—that Is all. When a regiment moves Into a town foreigners living in It resign themselves to insomnia. The Chinese do not. Noise to them Is one of the (normal ano pleasurable phenomena of existence the more deafening the more pleasurable.