The Archive · 1900

Departure of the Hongkong Regiment for the Seat of War

Yesterday morning the remainder of the Hongkong Regiment, a division of which has already done good service in North China, left for the front in the transports Indis'and Dalhousie to the number of about, 500 rank and file. Lieut.-Colonel Retallick and Lieuts. Moberley and Burrett embarked at Kowloon wharves with the richt wing in the Dalhousie, and Lieuts. Hatehinson and Radkin with the left wing in the India, The men, who are highly elated, were inspected by General Gascoigne just before their departure.

not improbable that General Gaselee will apply for farther reinforcem before long, the great heat a of the march to Peking havi good dea} of sickness in the tanks

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