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THE ARMY
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being. In the twenty-eighth year of the Restoration (1895), under the Governor-General of Formosa, several military offices, as well as a Telegraph Construction Office and Lighthouse Office, were adopted for that country, as was also the Wei-hai-wei Office of Occupation. In 1898 the Supreme Council of War to the Emperor was established, and in the following year the Non-commissioned School ceased to exist.

Appointment of Officers.

At the beginning of the present era the complement of officers and non-combatants of equivalent rank was made up largely from those who had held corresponding posts in the feudal régime.

At present officers of the various corps are selected as follows:

  1. Those who have graduated from the Central Military Preparatory School.
  2. Those who have graduated from the Government or ordinary public schools, or from schools recognised by the Minister of Education as institutions of equal standing, or those whose scholarship is considered equal to that of those graduates and who have passed the entrance examination.

Paymasters are appointed from among those Lieutenants or Sub-lieutenants on active service who, having been admitted on examination to the Paymasters’ School, have gone through the regular course there, or those who come under any of the following heads, and who, in addition, have gone through the required training at the Paymasters’ School:

  1. Students of the College of Laws, of the Imperial Universities, or of the higher commercial schools, and who have been selected as paymaster-clerks on their own application.
  2. Graduates of the foregoing institutions or graduates of foreign institutions of equal standing who have applied for paymasterships.

Surgeons for military purposes are selected from among the following classes:

  1. Students of the Colleges of Medicine of the Imperial Universities, or of a special school of medicine, or of a legal medical school regarded by the Minister of Education as of equal standing to the ordinary middle schools, and who have graduated from these institutions.
  2. Graduates of foreign institutions possessing equal scholarship with the foregoing.
  3. Graduates of the Military Surgeons School.
  4. One-year volunteers possessing either the license of medicine or of pharmacy.
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