Last week's "Walla Walla," the U.S, Marines' weekly magazine, is devoted largely to the Second Battalion of The Royal Welch Fusiliers with whom the United States Marines are on the friendliest of relations, Thirty-eight years ago the Marines and the Royal Welch Fusiliers met for the second time in their history, The first had been at the battle of Bunker's Hill when the encounter was not quite so friendly. But the two bodies of men served together in China during the Boxer trouble, and then last year they were to meet again on Chinese soil to defend the interests of the world's two great democracies. Much of interest to both fine bodies of men is printed in this special number, but perhaps the best indication of the spirit in which the magazine has been produced may be shown by publishing its editorial:—
The Walla Walla this week, as may be seen, is a special issue commemorating the spirit of kinship which has risen during the years between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The various articles appearing on these pages need no enlargement, so clearly do they illustrate that feeling between the two organizations and we sre proud indeed to dedicate this issue of the Walla Walla to our Welch comrades-at-arms.
Every American schoolboy remembers the famous phrase of Israel Putnam at the Battle of Bunkers Hill Striding the hastily thrown up redoubt he commanded his men, with a view toward the scarcity of ammunition: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Since it was at Bunker's Hill the Royal Welch Fusiliers served with distinction, it is naturally to be concluded that the gallant Putnam referred to the orbs of our distinguished friends to whom we have dedicated this issue.
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