Shanghai Bids Farewell to Lancashire Fusiliers Preceded by a mounted Sikh escort under the command of a foreign police officer, the 2nd Battalion The Loyal Regiment got their first glimpse of Shanghai proper as they marched Broadway, the Bund and Nanking Road shortly after 9.30 am. on November 5 to the Race Course, They arrived in Shanghai early inthe morning ° from kong, by transport, disembarking at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Ca. Hongkew Wharf at 9 o'clock.
'At the Race Course, they met the 2nd' Battalion 'The Lancashire Fusiliers, whom they are relieving, and who had left their barracks in' Great Western Road shortly before The Loyals left the "wharf, The Lancashire -Fusillers marched on to the Race Course, under the command of LiewtCol. R. F. H. Massy-Westropp, and on the arrival of the two battalions, they fell out for half an hour to allow the troops to exchange Despite the gloomy skies of the early partof the week, the weather was fine that afternoon, mo doubt to the Joy of both the arriving' and the departing battalions, The Loyals were seen doing ample justice to.an informal canteen on the Race Course, which dispensed large quantities of cups of tea and buns, a: wel come surprise during the course of 'a march with heavy equipment,
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