The Sixth Marines are making a quiet exit from Shanghai, although they entered it with plenty of noise—that supplied by the booming of guns and the deafening crash of hursting bombs. Contrary to the usual custom of holding a parade down to the Jetty, with marching columns of men stepping in time to lively martial music, the men will be taken down to the Jetty in lorries, and thence by tender to the Chaumont Thus the British forces in Shanghai are prevented from returning a courtesy extended to them when the Welch Fusiliers made their departure, and were headed down to the wharf by the band of the Fourth Marines.
Arrangements were being made for one of the British army bands in Shanghai to head the Sixth Marines on their march to the Customs Jetty, but as they are going in lorries these will have to be cancelled. It is thought, however, that a British band may be at the Jetty to give the marines a lively send-off. The marines, it will be remembered, were welcomed to Shanghai by the drum and fife band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Sixth Regiment of "Devil Dogs" made a welcome appearance in Shanghai on September 21 to swell the garrison of foreign troops which had been gradually increasing since the situation became serious in Shanghai. They were dispatched from Santiago soon after events here had taken a grave turn, and their arrival was eagerly aw: American—community; perienced a real feeling of relief when the strong detachment of reinforcements for the American garrison landed in Shanghai. The fact that they were on their way here also re-assured the many Americans who were alarmed by the President's statement with regard to the withdrawal of protection from American citizens in China who failed to leave the war zone, it being pointed out that the fact that the Sixth Marines were on their way to Shanghai showed that the American policy of giving protection to its nationals abroad was being continued Close to "War"
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