London, Mar. 31. ACCORDING to provisional arrangements the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers and the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers will stay one year at Shanghai and then go home, when the families will rejoin the units, The Scots are to relieve the 2nd Hampshire Regt, in the 14th Infantry Brigads it Catterick for 1932, the Hampshire being given a "home area" spell at Parkhurst, The Royal Scots Fusiliers who are at Borden will move to Palestine next winter.
The 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers are to take the place and barracks of their Ist Battalion in the 15th Infantry Brigade and so get York as a station for 1982. The Ast Northumberland Fusiliers are to do a West India tour, Jamaica and Bermuda, and in time move on to other stations on the colonial roster.
It will thus be seen that the two battalions now at Shanghai will be together again at home in the 5th Di ion. The re-hevi Lincolnshire Regiment from Gibrattar andthe ist. Wiltshire battalions for Shanghai duty next year will be the Ist
Regiment from the Canal Brigade, Egypt. Both battalions will leave the families behind, and, presumably, they will rejoin in the new stations when these units leave Shanghai in 1933, The Ist Queen's Royal Regiment at Tientsin will get their drafts from Aldershot as the 2nd Battalion is to move there from Dover.
Some additions are provided for the military units in China for 1981-32 as a permanent increase in excess of the numbers in the Command before the Shanghai emergency. Hitherto the services" concerned have been met by the temporary use of additional numbers. The Signals and Medicals are to be increased three-fold and the Ord~ Jnance and the Pay units doubled. There is a quadrupled increase in the R.A.S.C. for the inception of scheme which easing the number of miechanfeal transport companies to compensate for the loss of horse transport disbanded in 1928" and 1920. This increase means further repair shop work' which will be provided. The R.E. will also provide a new Postal Service. The 1931-32 China establishment is therefore as felows:—
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