Preceded by their company flags, which were affixed, bayonet-fashion, fo the top of a rifle, the vation marine companies marched past in cial step which the Japanese derived from the German govsestep. Despite the rain, which by now was falling steadily, they marched past in column of fours with a smartness equal to most armies unde: equal conditions.
At the end of the column of div drab marines came a small company of blue-jackets landed from the warships in port. Their blue-tinged "tin helmets" contrasted strangely with the olive-drab helmets generally seen in the Kiangwan area.
The "infantry section" of the parade came to an end with two small companies, consisting of field telephones and stretcher-bearers respec tively. The band, which had been standing in the rain the whole time playing the Japanese "Navy March," paused for but a moment to ta breath and then broke out into a much quicker tune as the mechanised section of the Landing Party came into sight The Artillery Mountain-gung and quick-firers. howitzers and anti-tank guns rumbled pàst, in the tow of smooth-running motor lorries. In direct contrast to the rumble of these gun units was the rattle and clatter of the one large tank and the six or more "whippet tanks," which slashed their way past throwing up wads of dirt road b hind them, The ubiquitous motor: ycie-sidecar combinations were present in full force. Each of these carry two mer besides the driver, and. are reported to speed ahead even of the tank when attacking villages and towns the machine-gun in the nose of the side-car being a particularly deadly weapon of the quick-firing type.
The parade continued with a long me of motor lorries, each manned by about ten men armed with a machine gun and rifles; most of the men carried shovels and other trenching tools as well, and would appear to constitute the "sapper" section of the Landing Party.
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