Salute at Consulate at 11 am.; Seaforths Due The British Military Headquarters in Shanghai announced yesterday that Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, H.M. Ambassador to China, would take the salute on the departure of the Second Battalion, the Loyal Regiment, for Singapore this morning. The Loyals will be passing H.M. Consulate-General at approximately 11 o'clock. The Ambassador will be accompanied by Major-General A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, commanding the British troops in Shanghai, and Mr. Herbert Phillip, H.M. Consul-General The First Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders, which is due this morning from Hongkong, is expected to leave Hunt's Wharf for the Race Course at approximately 9 o'clock, headed by their pipe and drum band.
The salute will be taken by Major-General Telfer-Smollett at H.M.
Consulate-General at about 9.15 am.
On their arrival at the Race Course, the Seaforths will meet the Loyals, and the salute will be taken again by General Telfer-Smollett. The Loyals will be headed by the band of the First Battalion, the Durham Light Infantry, and also, it is understood, that of the Fourth Marines, on their march down to the wharf, where they will embark on the troopship Somersets hire for Singapore. The ship will leave Shanghai to-morrow.
The Loyals yesterday received a magnificent souvenir from the officers of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. It consisted of a standard into which were woven the badges of the Shanghai Municipal Council and of the S.V.C. They also received a photograph from the French forces in Shanghai, and a suitable memento from the Fourth Marines, with whom they were on the most friendly terms during their stay here.
Members of the Loyal Regiment yesterday expressed their regret at leaving Shanghai. They have been quartered here considerably longer than most British regiments which are stationed in Shanghai. As one of the Loyals officers told a "North-China Daily News" reporter, "We did not like the place very much when we first came, but after a time we began to like it, and now we are genuinely sorry to leave a city who:
we have had such a pleasant time, for|and such an unusual experience as at} the "War of 1937."
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