The annual inspection of tho} Shanghai Volunteer Corps produced 4 satisfactory turn-out and spectators were able io judge how vastly the Corps has developed as the result of the recent re-organization, Its Usefulness ug an instrument of interral security has been enhanced and the excellent traditions which the Corps lias maintained throughout Its Honourable history "have not been impaired. No doubt partisans which any self-respecting unit must possess will consider that certain formations covered themselves with especial lory as they passed the saluting base fon Saturday, 'There probably were some who felt that' the onus of vindicating Shanghai's martial ardour fell exclusively on the shoulders of a single private or trooper or gunner of the line. Such orities would nat rally sympathize with the wrath of the stout-hoaried lady who discovered that only her George of his whole battalion was keeping in step. Room for those views cannot be found here. It Is suflieient to observe that the Corps as a whole was splendid and its international composition mag-
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