writers have it, and those little comforts which -80 happily help to provide the soldier in India with a grouse and a means of enjoyment at the same time, They have been remarkably adaptable. They have had one great thing in common with Shanghai—their love of sport. The Recreation ground will greatly miss the sight of Worcesters, playing soccer, rugger, cricket, polo, hockey or anything demanding a good eye and a ball to hit. Their military smartness, as proved by rheic trooping of the colour and their tattoo, will also be remembered.
Nor have the officers or men of the battalion been deficient la those gentler graces which, Shanghai likes to think, it provides with a setting" unequalled anywhere east of Sues, They and their countrymen will specially treasure the happy thought of the 4th Regiment of the United States Marine Corps who, in addition. to exchanging tokens of amphibian comradeship, played the departing British unit down to the landing stage, through Shanghai's streets, Some of the men sailing to-day will, on arrival in Eogland, finish their army careers, The wish extended to them is that in civil life they may have have all the luck Shanghai would like them to have. Colonel Faviell and his officers—and, of course, that confirmed pessimist the Regimental Sergeant Major, who does all the work and preserves a chaste vocabulary in the process—will accept Shanghai's-gratitude for the opportunity of making acquaintance with so fine a battalion regiment of the line whieh'stands second to none for its achievements in War on land or sea, state with his personal baggage and loaded, with introductions and credentials' to the military satraps here, when the bus ju which he was riding was attacked by bandits and the passengers all robbed, Ha, with the other unfortunates, lost all his belongings, money, passports and credentials,.and came in looking. well plucked, This same gang attacked the mail at Damienpu and rifled twelve bags of parcels. The local militia had been drawn off by brigands in another direction, bub failing to locate: them, got back to town while the robbers were busily engaged with the mail, A brief fight ensued and the robbers made off with only a minor part of the loot. Had they been left unmolested they would probably have cut into the 160 odd bags of important mail, The Fine New Roads Drs, Wilford, Thompson and. Cunning him of the Canadian Mission Hospital drove in Inst week with their respective families safely ensconced in fine large American ears they had brought along with them. From Chungking the trip was made by small boat as far as Suining -where General Li Chi-hsiang accorded them a warm welcome and gave them every fa for moving on to the capitol vid the ting new motor road, the last 600 being made in a day fow Dr. Lijestrand has just party, and a number ca for a local firm, "Chengtu is. certainly being invaded by motordom, and the new wide streets of the city are humming with motor life. Other families lately arriving are the Jolliffes and Bells from fur-Tough, 'The University forees are being' greatly augmented; espocially fortunate is the medical faculty with the return of so many experienced doctors and dentists.
Christmas festivities are the order of the day. The Canadian school have just finished a very successful evening when the talented youngsters put on two excellent plays. Now the Chinese students are Questing repeats, and the School is planning two more ovenings for the community. The Principal Mr. Walmsley of Toronto University, congratulated on their splendid work,
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