Inniskilling Fusiliers Arrive in the Dorsetshire When the trim, white HM. 'Transport 'Dorsetshire' tied up 19 the Old. Ningpo Wharf shortly after 2/pm. on Monday, some 850 officers and men of the Royal Inniskillins Fusiliers. (the 21th Foot) had their first glimpse of the shores on which they are to spend their next year uty, was an animated scene on the wharf, with bustle and activity, but, is only expected of His Majesty's forces, no confusion. While a great number of the new battalion hung over the rails "of the " transport, Watching the anties of the acrobats, land. conjurers "who flock" alongside new steamer begging for money, king gangs moved back and forth from the ship's side, carrying away the' baggage and stores og. fast Worcesters Wives Arrive Many of the Worcestershires were fon the dock, but not to grest the! Successors. For the transport. brought China 35 wives and mans children. When the Worcester move to Tientsin they willie on permanent station where many of them are allowed to have their families "with "them. From happy smiles and "proud beaming. faces on many of them as they held their children for the frst time in months, it was too obviow:
terday was a day of days.
But work went on. Oficers fron the Shanghai headquarters and from the Worcesters ran up and down the angplank on mysterious errands of their own, "A huge pile of laundry mounted higher and higher on. the whart™ side—and the Inniskiling Sergeant-Major in a vole full of honey and stings with frst touch of brogue gently addressed a working fang on the wharf much as follows: I's all right. There's only a plane fin that ease, Go ahead, throw about Despite the grimy, coal-ited shore which is all that they could see from the ship, the men. seemed lis. to be here, They have come straight from Borden, all but 300 of them. These Inst area draft from ths Royal Irish. Fusiliers (Princess Vic toria's) which were picked up en route at Port Sudan. They told the "North-China Herald" reporter of a fine trip out. Six weeks they have been on the voyage, with good weather practically all of the way.
men, for the most part very young They good looking body of Proud of a sporting record, they told of an excellent cricket team, and fine" hockey, soccer and boxing strength.
The next morning Shanghai had their" first chance to see this new battalion, as they march through the city on their way to. their new Quarters, This is an Trish regiment, Proud of thir trish pipe band whic bows to no Scots alive. They. will skin their way up Nanking Road where they will
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