The Archive · 1936

Enemy: Test of Personnel and Equipment

A forge hostile force. massing >t the Hungjao Golf Club. early on Sunday morning, following the withdrawal of all regular troops from the International Settlement, caused 1 mobilization of the Shanghai Volun-eer Corps, and the area west of Edinburgh Road was filled _with cavalry, armoured car units, Lewis fun detachments, and riflemen, Residents were not alarmed, however, as, with the exception of "A Battalion, S.C, all the combatants, both attackers and defenders, were imaginary, being conceived in the minds of Corps Headquarters as 0 test of personnel and equipment.

The general idea was that nows sud~ and the scattered units, hurrying Back and forth with reports and orders. Meanwhile, in anticipation of a tong drawn-out battle, the mobile kitchens came rolling up and awaited further orders,

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