Apr. 6.
Crowds of cheering men and women lined the streets from Wellington Barracks to Waterloo Station' to-day when drafts of the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards, in serwviee dress and grey greatcoats, pre-voded by a band playing "Keep the Home Fires Burning," marched to} the-station on their way to reinforce the 2nd Battalion, which is leaving! Aldershot for China.
The first contingent of the new Brigade for the Shanghai Defence, Force will embark from Southampton on board the City of Marseilles en April 11.—Reuter.
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