San Diego, Jan. 8.
The American transport ship, U.SS. Chaumont, arrived here to-day en route to the Orient and embarked an additional 400 sailors and marines as replacements for American forces low stationed in the Far Ea: The .haumont already had 500 marines and sailors aboard after calling at San Pedro and San Francisco.
The sailors and marines aboard the Ghaumont on its trip to the Far East Will replace other forces now it Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines and China. The ship will arrive in Shanghai in February and is expected to return 1,300 marines of the fixth Regiment, Second Brigade Headquarters, to the United States. -7United Press.
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