Meet Outgoing Battalion of Ulster at Race Course With the rolling of drums and the cheery sound of fifes setting a lively pace, the First Battalion The Durham, Light Infantrs, or the Goth Foot. which arrived on Nov, 23 on board the transport Dilwara, swung down Nanking Road in the direction of the Race Course at about 9.30 am, on Nov, 25, 'They were headed by the band -of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and in front of thee column rode Trooper Sergent Garrison and two Slick mounted policemen with Jances. Small, stocky men, they looked' a healthy crowd, and there was a spuns their step in spite of the confine ment on board ship during the voyage out from England.
Crowds lined Nanking Road 10 watch the Tong procession of khaki Agures, in full equipment and wear ing. tepees with colourful cockades with the regimental badge of a bugle horn, and the letters D.L, march past,' "Arrived at the Race' Course, "he battalion halted beside the Firsi Battalion, "The Royal Ulster Rifles, which had paused to greet the coming battalion, before continuing on way to the Customs Jetty to em-parke for the Dilwara, Over a bun two, men from the two battalions chatted to one another, and exchanged pleasantries. Then the Rifles took over the Royal Welch Fusiliers Band, and swung through the Race Course gates on their last tramp through the Streets of Shanghai, Shortly atter-wards, the Duthams," headed by the band of the Loyal Reyiment, which had brought the Rifles as far ay the Race Course, set off for their billets at the Vu Yuen Road School, vacated by the departing regiment, " Major General A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett took the salute at the Country Club, Five Men Missing The last, time that the battalion had marched along Nanking Road, there were five more men in its ranks than there on Nov. 25, Those who watched the Ries inarch down Shanghai's main street with all the smartness of the British soldier as he stops in time with his comrades behind a crack military band, could not help recalling the misfortune which ad overtaken this. battalion Since its arrival in Shanghai at the beginning of hostilities to. assist in the defence of the Settlement.
Four men had died only $0 yards from the front Me of five close to Jessfield Park, and one had been the victim of an attack upon a British post by a Japanese warplane, The Battalion had done more than share in the defence of the Settlement perimeter.
No doubt some of the men recalled ays and nights spent in sandbag posts in the Jessfield sector during' the severe fighting in the western dis-fret, and Inthe Hongkew sector close to the North Station while the Aghting was raging furiously In that quarter, and bombs and shells were bursting unpleasantly close, Certainly the departing troops had plenty 6f vivid memories (0 take with then of Shanghai during the "war" of 1937, Boarding tenders at the Customs Jetty, the Rifles were taken board the Dilwara, lying at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf, Pooung. The Dilwara sailed at 8 am on Nov, 26 for India, and there the main body of the battalion will Gismark for Rawalpindi, where they will serve their next term of service, JSome cltalls will be drafted for sorvice in other parts of the British Empire.
The Durhams are under the tom: porary command of Major Heslop, "Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Gruy-Wilson, their commanding officer, being indisposed at the present time, Menenens of the local Bankers! Association and the Gulld of Money Exchange Shops have continued to grant loans to business and. indus {trial houses needing working capital, Jalthough the credits cover somewhat Feduced amounts as compared With former grants, states a report to the, Hsin Wen Pao." The maintenance of these operations tends {0 stabilize local market condition ithin, The school records are be eved to be safe, The buildings in general are pretty well riddled. the roof of the workshop has a curiously undulating effect, fences are broken down,.the glass eases of the museum ate shattered. but typewriters and small organs are sill there and the property can be patched up und further damage prevented If permission can be obtained for the work.
'The students who were not in their homes during the summer holidays fare al present with the China Inland Mission, through the kindness of its general' director. "Mr, G. W. Gibb. Tt has not been possible thus far to make any arrangements for the resumption of the school's work,
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