States are due to-morrow when about 1,435 U.S. Marines under the command of Brig.-Gen. J. C. Beaumont are expected to arrive in the transport Chaumont under convoy of the light cruiser Marblehead. The Chaumont will come up the river to the U.S. Naval Buoys while the U.SS, Marblehead will come only as far as Woosung and then continue immediately on her way to Tsingtao.
'The incoming Marines are of the 2nd Brigade Headquarters, Headquarters troops and the 6th Regiment, These men will be quartered at various new billets in the American sector, and Brigade Headquarters will' be established at 65
Gordon Road.
Gen. Beaumont, who is well-known in Shanghai, is in command of the Brigade of which the 4th! Regiment now stationed here will form a part, His Chief of Staff is Lieut-Col Harry Schmidt.
The distinction of being one of the two U.S. Marine regiments to have been presented with the French "Fourragere" for distinguished service in France during the Great War is held by the 6th Regiment, commanded at present by Col Thomas S. Clark. This regiment also saw service in Shanghai and Tientsin during the troublesome days of 1927.
Also well known in Shanghai is Lieut-Col. Harry Schmidt who was attached to the Staff of the 4th Regiment from 1934 to 1936. Lieut. H. C. Tschirigi, who was prominent here last winter as an outstanding football player, is returning as Gen.
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