The transport Somersetshire has. arrived from England and is leaving for Shanghai to-morrow with the Ist Battalion of the Norfolk London, Nov. 2.
The 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards will leave China early the New Year and go to Chelrea to replace, for public duties London, the Welsh Guards, who are going to Exypt—Reuter, Tientsin Tribute (0 East Yorks Monseigneur de Vienne, Bishop of Tientsin, attended Church Parade at St, Louis to say farewell to the soldiers of the Ist East Yorkshire Regiment about to leave for India, and to those of the 2nd Border Regiment who are returning to England. He was accompanied from his residence by Lieut, Lil. V. MacMahon, Ist East Yorkshires and 8 received at the Church by a Guard of Honour drawn from the two Battalions. Me pres the Sanctuary during the Mass at which there was a large attendance of English and French residents of Tientsin, Father Devine, the preached on the Sacrament of Confirmation. Then addressing the Bishop in French, he thanked him not only for coming there that day but for the interest he had always shown in the British soldiers of Tientsin. Father Devine told him how pleased he was when first arriving at Tientsin to hear Monseigneur de Vienne speak s0 highly of the British soldiers in his Vicariate.
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