On Race Course on Dec. 5 Fof Departing Officer Detachmients from the Shanghai Defence Forces will parade at the Race Course at 10.30 am. on December 5 in honour of Colonel Joseph C. Fegan, departing Commanding Officer of the Fourth Marines who is sailing with Mrs. Fegan for the United States in the s. President Taft on the same day. The troops will be drawn up on the baseball grounds, facing the cricket club with details from the Fourth Marines, S.V.C., French Forces, British Forces, Italian Marines and Japanese Naval Landing Party lined up in the order named. The band of the Fourth Marines will provide musie at the cere any.
The troops will be in position at 10.15 am. to receive Colonel Fegan who will arrive by way of Lung Fei Gate. The colonel will alight from his car and inspect the guards of honour, the various guards saluting independently as Col. Fegan arrives in front of them- -Following the inspection Col. Fegan will say goodbye to the defence commanders and other friends who may gather to bid him farewell. He will then make his departure by Lung Fei Gate.
Colonel Fegan has been ordered to duty at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, in Washington, D.C. Upon Col. Fegen's departure Lt.-Col. C. I. Murray, present executive officer of the Fourth Marines and senior lieutenant-colonel in the regiment, will assume command of the Fourth Marines until the arrival in Shanghai of Colonel De Witt Peck in January of next year.
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