Crowds lined the Bund foreshore to watch the arrival and wondered the arrivals, Colonel Parsons, Fleet Marine Officer in the Augusta, and Colonel Thomas S. Clarke, now in command of the 6th Regiment. Photographers, who were the only ones allowed on the middle jetty besides officials, immediately went to work.
Going to the Pootung side of the Chaumont, the Dollar tender was loading Marines and their equipment for over an hour before she finally circled around the outside of the Augusta to return to the Customs Jetty.
Good-natured banter was called across water between the incoming Marines and those on the Customs Jetty, and the fife and drum band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers began playing as the tender approached. A long battery of cameras clicked and ground away steadily as the tender made fast and the Marines, wearing campaign hats while carrying "tin hats" on their packs, began landing.
Hendaye, Sept. 19.
A mass exchange of Spaniards has been arranged, according to an official Salamanca statement to-day which quoted the Spanish Press Services, Limited.
Two thousand five hundred men in insurgent territory between the ages of 18 and 45, it is stated, will be exchanged for the same number of men of the same ages at present taking refuge in Embassies and Consulates in Government-controlled Spain.—Reuter.
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