With the rolling of drums and the cheery sound of fifes setting a lively pace, the First Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, or the 68th Foot, which arrived on Tuesday on board the transport Dilwara, swung down Nanking Road in the direction of the Race Course at about 9.30 am. yesterday. They were headed by the band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and in front of the column rode Trooper Sergeant Harrison and two Sikh mounted policemen with lances. Small, stocky men, they looked a healthy crowd, and there was a spring in their step in spite of the confinement on board ship during the voyage out from England, 3
Crowds lined Nanking Road to watch the long procession of khan! figures, in full equipment and wearing tepees with colourful cockades with the regimental badge of a bugle horn, and the letters D.LI, march vast, Arrived at the Race Course, the battalion halted beside the First Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles, which had paused to greet the incoming battalion, before continuing on its way to the Customs Jetty to embark for the Dilwara. Over a bun or two, men from the two battalions chatted to one another, and exchanged pleasantries. Then the Rifles took over the Royal Welch Fusiliers Band, and swung through the Race Course gates on their last tramp through the streets of Shanghai. Shortly afterwards, the Durhams. headed by the band of the Loyal Regiment, which hod brought the Rifles as far as the Race Course, set off for their billets at the Vu Yuen Road School, vacated by the departing regiment, Brigadier-General A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett took salute at the Country Club.
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