Referring to the three military guests, he said that the club haa Hat the privilege of entertaining Col. Hume on a previous occasion, He and his regiment, the Loyals, had won the affectionate respect of Shanghai During the war he had once commanded a battery which had had to cover the Welch Regiment and the Royal Welch Fusiliers in France, he continued, and therefore he felt a personal bond with that regiment.
At that time batteries were allowed only thirty rounds d week, and on one occasion he. had Aired. thirty-one rounds and had been asked to give an explanation in^wriüng. He explained that Ue had: fred only twenty-nine the before, and the reply he got was; "You poor fish, dont you know that the supply is not cumulative?"
He had for had personal acquaintance with the, Royal Ulster Rifles in
that the head of the Clan Macnaghten but he could say with pride had been killed at Thiepval while serving with that regiment.
It had been suggested to him that he might dub the three colonels of the regiments in Shanghai as the new version of the "Three Musketeers, since the trio [which had been christened with that nate on the ship had parted. But he hesitated to assign to any one of the three the part of Athos because he was anxious to avoid any jealousies among the British higher command,
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