Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — Chinese Soldiers Despised. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Soldiers Despised.

Soldiers are despised in China. They belong chiefly to the coolie classes. The German officers engaged some time ago by the Chinese government found that their most important task was to overcome the soldiers’ own feelings that they were a lower order of beings than other Chinamen.