The Archive · 1928

The British Grenadiers

The first of these troops arrived yesterday and the whole division is expected to pose through Kiukiang within the next week or so. They created quite a good impression when they marched through Kia-kiang, looking more like soldiers and being better equipped than the rage Nationalist brave, albeit the proportion of boys under 18 years of age must have been well over half.

No.doubt quite unawares, possibly' under the impression were playing "Die Wacht am Yangtze, the troops paid the Kiukiang Club, that venerable institution, quite a 1 compliment as they marched past. As they sat sipping their lemonades and seltzers, the members of the Club were surprised to recognize, floating out of the cacophony, the notes of that familiar old tune "The British Grenadiers."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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