The Archive · 1939

Col. Fegan Bids Farewell to Shanghai

Colonel Joseph S. Fegan, former commanding officer of the Fourth U. S. Marines, who is leaving for the United States in the President Taft, yesterday reviewed a farewell parade at the Shanghai Race Course by the international forces of Shanghai.

Represented were American, British, French, Italian and Japanese forces, as well as members of the Municipal Police Force. In the above photograph, Colonel Fegan is shaking hands with Rear-Admiral Seiji Takeda, commanding the Japanese Naval Landing Party in Shanghai. Colonel L. Grenier, commanding the French Garrison, is on the extreme right,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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