Col Charles E. B. Price, accompanied by Mrs, Price, left Shanghai yesterday morning aboard the U.S. Naval Transport Chaumont for the United States, where he is to occupy a Marine post at Washington, following his handing over the command of the Fourth Regiment, United States Marine Corps, to Col. Joseph C Fegan on Tuesday.
The departing Marine commander and his wife bade farewell to Col Fegan and other Marine officers and their wives at the Customs Jetty on Friday evening and to Japanese and other military officers who had gathered there.
Also aboard the Chaumont were 108 Marines and four officers, some 28 of the former being due for service in ihe Philippines and two for service in Guam. Company "A" of the Fourth Marines under Capt. Davis C. Coffman and First Lieutenants Donn C. Hart, W. M. Platt and Second Lieutenant N. J. Rodeheffer left for Cavite for training and they will return in about six weeks.
The Chaumont will pick up some sailors in Hongkong from the U.S.S. Mindanao, South China gunboat which is at Canton, while other sailors to be embarked include a few from the U.S.S. Monocacy Capt. Evans F. Carlson. who recent-y d to Shanghai from the ins also on board, while the y of the late Lieutenant Roamer vans de la Barr, former gunnery officer of the U.S.S. Oahu was being conveyed to Weems Creek, Maryland for buri:
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