The transport City of Marseilles arrived in Shanghai on February 14 with the 2nd Battalion The Groan Howards, who have come to relieve the 2nd Wiltshires, It. Col. F, Kinsman is in com-.. mand of the 2nd Battalion, which numbers 22 officers and 845 men, with J. W. Staines as Rogimentag Sergeant Major. Some 100 of tha battalion, including one officer, wore in Shanghai with the 1st Battalion, and joined the 2nd as' drafts, most when the 1st was on the way home in 1928 One of the men, when asked what he thought about re" turning here, said that he was glad to be back: "he did not like Egypt, The battalion left Dover in Sep" tember, 1925, for its tour of foreign duty, and has since served in the West Indies (Jamaica) and Egypt (at Moasear), with two months spent recently in Palestine. AN ranks are very keen on sport. Tha battalion won the hockey champion ship in Egypt, has a fair soccer side, and hopes to have a good cricket team this summer. Ruger, has not been played for some time, ut is to be taken up again, "ai
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