Excellent Turn-out on Race Course by Second Battalion There has not been much holding! of the 2nd Batt. The Suffolk Regt. Since their "'funk-waggon" carried off the honours at the S.V.C. Mount Sports, for few know exactly) What it means to dress up a limber For sch an event, to back your chance against alleomers, and to collect the proceeds. None in lunghai prope except the their very. keen pa of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Yet the Suffolks of last Sunday were as nothing to the Suffolks of Wednesday. Generals fon annual inspections occasional-Ty look black when they dis cover a button undone or a rifle with f trifle of oily rag protruding from the muzzle, and. not infrequently they have been known to smile from Jone end of the parade to the other when things are as near as possible to that state of perfection to which even a battalion of batman and sergeant-majors could not attain, but only on about four occasions in history has an inspecting General gone the length actually saying within the hearing of a battalion that he wag satisfied, and that happened on Wednesday to the Suffolks.
Major-General Duncan took the! Suffolks "as the second unit on the Ist for annual in spection of his command, the parade, 1 in the ease of the ' Coldstream Guards some days ago, being: on the! Public Recreation Ground.
The] battalion paraded in the early morn-ug, at full available strength, under Lieut.-Col. F. 8, Cooper, 0.8.0, with their Colours, drum-and-fife and military band:, men and equipment burnished to the last—particu even the reverse sides of the drum heads being freshly "breaded", and there was one bayonet which the battalion is prepared to back against any other in the Army.
The procedure followed the usual order of a general salute, a minute inspection of the ranks, then a march past in column "ofo panies, close column, and finale column of route. The Suffolks have earned somewhat of a reputation in Shanghai for their fine parade marching, with a perfect alignment, a swaggering turn of the head and eyes to the luting base, what fetches! leveryone,'a sivinging of the arms to) the fullest possible extent. On Wed-day morning they excelled themselves, and after that came the General's compliment, so that it was; not surprising, even now that}
Shanghai has got used to marching!
cops, that people stopped to look fat them they returned down Bubbling ell Road to billets.
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