The Holt County Sentinel

Chinese in Our Navy.

Admiral Dewey recently recommended that his Chinese servants, who gave such gallant service during the great fight in Manila bay, should be admitted to American citizenship. The subject is further discussed in an article on this battle written for the Century by Joel C. Evans, a gunner of the Boston. As Mr. Evans says: "The Chinese servants, ordinarily used for fetching and carrying, were impressed into service, and showed courage and skill. They showed as much nerve as the Americans. They toiled at the whips and in lifting and carrying the ammunition. Their faces were as impassive as when serving dinner in Hong Kong harbor. They chattered to each other in their own language, and laughed in their celestial way, when a shot striking the foremast shook the ship, caused the paint to scale off the mast a foot from us, and the angle lines which strengthen it inside to rattle loudly. 'Velly good,' said one, and mechanically resumed his task. They too were curious, and when some man would sing out from the ports that he had struck a Spanish ship they were as happy as we."