The home battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, Colchester, is pre-Daring a draft of over 100 rank and lo for the Ist Battalion in Shanghai, for despatch the coming trooping season of 1936-37, which opens in mide September.
Recruiting for the Lancashire Fusiliers has been very good in their own recruiting ground in Lancashire.
The recent order by his Majesty that the India General Service Medal troops employed in the operations fon the Northwest Frontier, February 2-April 13, 1935—the Lee Agra operations-—recall that the India Gen-feral Service Medal was issued ori ginally on January 23, 1854, by ord of Queen Victoria to commemorate the services of the troops in. the Burmese campaign of 1882-83, The obverse of the medal bears the head of the sovereign and the reverse a figure of Vielory crowning with a Jaurel wreath a seated warrior in Roman costume. The warrior holds {in his right hand the typical short sword of the Roman legionaries, hhis left the sheath of the same, is helmet on the ground beside him, In the exergue isa lotus flower, The ribbon is crimson with two dark Capt. J, C, Leach has taken over "command of the cruiser Cumberland, now in the last stages of her reconstruction at Chatham. He will take the ship out to the China Station, where she will become flagship of the Station Ju relief of the Kent ordered home for refit. "Capt. Leach, who will be flag captain to Vice-Admirat Sir Charles Little, Com= mander-in-Chief of the China Station, has been in the senior service sines 1911, when he passed out from Osborne, where he was a term mate of the King—then Prince of Wales. He served in the battleship Erin 1014-18, specialized in gunnery in the latter year, and later was gunnery officer of various ships. He was gun-ery officer of the battleship Renown when she conveyed the Duke: and Duchess of York to the Antipodes.
Successful Trooping Trips The liner-trooper Dilwara—bullt by Messrs Barclay, Curie & Ca, White-inch, Glasgow, to the order of the British India Steam Navigation Ca., has proved such a success on the two trooping trips which she made 0 India, Straits Settlements and China this relief season that the B-IS.N, the employment of approximately 40 men, including painters, iron-workers and riggers, completely to repaint the whole structure in approximately six years, at the end of which time the Sixeyearly cycle would be continued.
The quantities of paint used at the time the bridge was constructed were as follows:—shop coat 18,600 gallons, intermediate coat 9,260 gallons; fnishing coat 8,020 gallons.
The total capital cost of the bridge to June 80, 1935, was £10,085,282, as tunder—Payments to construction conrectors £4,810,516, expenditure bridge approaches £2,320,283; Lavender Bay railway station and_minor stripes 1% inch in breadth. Over thirty bars or combinations of bars have been issued with this mods The bar of the last issue is to Inscribed "Northwest Frontier, 1935 All ranks already in possession of the LG.S.M. will receive clasp only, Col, A. P. D. Telfer-Smoltet has been' selected for the com= mand of the Shanghai Area, which he will assume in July. Col. 'Telfer~ 'Smollet passed his regimental service in the Highland Light Infantry, to which he was appointed in 1904, and had varied career in the Great' War 5 a regimental and staff officer, and after the war in Russia, He was mentioned in despatches five times, decorated three, receiving the French War Cross as well as the DSO, and the ME. and a brevet majority, "He commanded the 3st Battalion—now at Fort George—the 2nd Battalion fs ut Peshawar—after a spell with the Royal West African Frontier Force, and since November, 1935, has been in command of the 187th" (Highland Light Infantry) Brigade, Territorial Army, Glasgow.
In addition to the river gunboats crews just landed at Hankow from the Dauntless, further reliefs will be despatched to the China Station for the same class of useful craft towards the close of the year, Tue open season for sea-monsters has been ushered in by Aberdeen not the great Aberdeen, but the one in Washington, USA, from where is reported that the carcase of a marine monstrosity, 12ft. Ting and weighing 13001b, has been washed up. Its head Is' like a. goat's, the eyes are Sin. apart and deep-set 2 pig's, and the teeth heavy' sharp. "According to a Baltimore zoologist, it faintly resembles" the reconstructed skeletons of certain prehistoric animals, but he admits good Aghters, modestly admitting that hho was one of the best fighters at his
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