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TROOPSHIP SAILS. ROUND THE WORLD TRIP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 12. The troop ship City of Marseilles, which left Southampton yesterday, will have sailed round the world, approximately 29,000 miles, when she gets back to back to England in December.
She will first land troops'at Bermuda, where other troops will be em--arkied for Tientsin. After passing tnrough the' Panama Canal she will call at Honolulu. This will be the first time that British ’troops have landed there, and snecihl -permission has hedn-obtained from the'*'-American Government for the vessel to stay for twenty-four hours to coal. On the homeward trip, the troops now at Tientsin will be shipped, to Tndia. and others now in India will be brought to England.
BRITISH FORCES MAKE A START, R.UGBY. September 13.
The Second Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment and the Second Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment will have the Rhineland for England early next week. The advance parties will stnrt to-morrow.
General- Sir William Thwaites, Com-mander-in-Chief of the British Army of Occupation, to-day delivered a forowel! address to the departing troops, thanking the officers and men for their loyal support.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1929, Page 5
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