The Fourth Marines have a happy fair for journalism and authorship. }So the issue of the famous Corps soul account of is doing in Shand event which invariably facts notice and not a Little envy. Theeo soldier seribed amd Ureie ely" fers manage to pul together a most creditably produced collection of letterpress and photographs in record of their reactions to service here. Sport plays naturally a big part in the pageant thus unfolded. The trad! tions of the Marines are well main tained in permitting such pleasant. irrelevancies as "Marine Ladies Quintet" to vary the monotony of masculine splendour and dignity. Perhaps the same spirit is to be discerned in the jovial photograph of the "Hard Times Dance Winners." although, such is the skill of the" soldier-actor, you never Beside the appropriate mental routine and changes, scope {ft afforded for learning what the Marine. as a Marine thinks of Shanghai. For instance he finds "man foreigners here interest= ed" in his welfare. He makes felends and finds "in far-off China glimpses of the United States." He has an eye for China's crafts, scenery and genius. He wanders far enough afield to include Hangchow's charms im this record which, no doubt, will duly make its way to America. Finally he manages, of his generosity, to. recognize the comradeship of "brother" services" and so British, French and Japanese military por: traits are presented in the proper vein of the true fighting man the world over:
"We have filled the trophy cases of these troops with little remembrances Speak to their comrades by means of Sine cute to unfamiliarity. with. for-flan tongues, these signs ore the un~
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