Shanghai, Jan. 13.
The past three years, Colonel Hornby "said, had been the most diMeult in the Regiment's history and lis members were called upon to carry out the most onerous duties Fae a eat hold a Joint The Regiment, however, he continued, More than 990 members of he tivo ever assigned to any military units ea, bodes in Sta ug to "als fuldlled everything entrusted to. meting yer 'oF busing, e000 whether It was pleasant of not, and bags of Saigon rice which they have thus won the jamiration of not only promised for the public granary the Russian colony, but that of the Proposed by Mr, Vu Ya-ching. The cosmopolitan population, meeting was held in the Shanghi Concluding, Colonel Hornby thenk-Rice Market in Foochow Road. Many ed the offers and men for the gift of attending the meeting} and told them to go on with their Gntered their names for buying & new qutles in the same manner in specified number of bags of lee, which they carried them out in the fend it was expected by, Into Shanghai Volunteer. Corps. quarters that there. would be no) Gimeulty for the merchants to buy The last parade of the Russian their full quota of the needed grain Regiment as a military unit will take for the granary which is "to hold place at, the Race Course on Sunday 200,000 bags of rice.
Bt 1130 em, when more presenta when it will cease to exist as a tions will be made to other members of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
With only a few days to go to complete fourteen years with the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the Rus-stan Regiment. will assume. new Gutles next Thursdsy, although they will remain in the same uniforms, only "badges and buttons being. fehanged. The commanding stof of the Regiment will also remain the same, while all the ranks will be kept.
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