Proper Accommodation at Last:
The New Premises in the Municipal Building The headquarters staff of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps is now in full possession of its new offices in the Municipal building. The entrance is in Foochow Road, next door to the drill hall, and the administrative offices are on the first floor. Here at last the staff is housed in a manner consonant with the importance of the work has to do.
There are two main departments as in every proper military organization. The first of these to be reached (leaving the Corps tailor out of account) might perhaps be described as operations and orders. Here the Corps and Battery 8.-M.'s carry on their work, and it is satisfactory to see that at length they appear to have sufficient room for their performance of their many duties. They occupy an extensive room, with -maps, military forms and the other paraphernalia always dear to the heart of a Sergeant-Major. Off this room is another for the Chinese clerks of the Corps. It is from this department that the orders are issued.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.