Sept.
Shanghai has already said] an revoir to the Gloucesters and the Durhams, the two English battalions of the Jhansi Brigade, and to-day it is with regret that we will see other units of the Brigade disappear from the port. With them goes also the, commander of_ the brigade, Col.-Commandant Sangster, and with his departure all in Shanghai must feo! that they lose a very great friend. Ut was during the increment days of February that he established his headquarters in the Chartered Bank building from where, in conjunction with the local authorities, he directed the work of ensuring the defence of Shanghai. While it was a super-Drigade which Col. Commandant Gangster brought with him—having, as it did, all the elements of the self-supporting division—the extent of front which it was called on to hold was s0 great that at any time it might have been hard put to it to carry out the needful work. Then with the arrival of the Shanghai Defence Force Headquarters und the other troops, the Jhansi Brigade took over the eastern hector, where it has been an important unit in securing the inviolability of the Settlement.
Shanghai in these days had the extraordinarily - interesting] experience of seeing how an huey is built up, even though, this case, it was in miniature. It came from places far apart. While attention was being concentrated by the public on the arrival of infantry battalions, guns and armoured ears, other branches indispet able to the working of a modern force were quietly making rendezvous of the port. For instance there was an intelligence staff, which included officers with an intimate knowledge of China and Chinese: then a_ printing. establishment took shape which has since
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