"Its foreign tour began in Decem= bor, 1983, when it spent a year Patostine before it moved to Cairo. In September or October, 1935, the Battalion was sent into the western losert, 10 a place which figures large-ivin British communiques from "An Ttatian "scare" prevailed, and the Highlanders took' up. frontier posts rushed to Hongkong—at 24 hours notice, This was one of the quickest moves ever" made by a British yogiment, the battalion embarking within Tour hours of the order being given, "The stay In Hongkong lasted only ten days. Back to Shanghai went the battalion—to heavy tasks, patrolling sectors, "holding posts, and doing other "work which was normally.
ed by two battalions.
The reason for this was the with wal of the Durham Light-Infantry. from Shanghai,
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